When his father dies, Eliécer is left in charge of his half-sister. The decision not to take responsibility, forces him to the mission to take the girl to the capital to find her mother who abandoned her when she was a baby.
Chepe Fortuna and Niña Cabrales are from different social classes. Chepe is a poor fisherman and Niña is from a wealthy family. He wants to become mayor to stop her wealthy family from building a port to industrialize the town. Niña is an ecologist and dissident from her family. She wants to help the community. Their love is brought together by dreams and the past, though they do not know it.