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A group of friends embark on a pleasure
trip that ends in tragedy. Maria hears a shot, finds her friend Patricia dead and, in her confusion, picks up the murder weapon.
She is accused of the crime and condemned to life in prison. Her husband Esteban, who doubts her innocence, divorces her,
bribes his friends to keep silent, and tells his children that their mother has died in an accident. Twenty years later, Maria
is released from prison for good behavior and she returns home seeking revenge. She is determined to uncover the real culprit
and to confront Esteban, whom she now despises for having abandoned her to her fate, but her greatest desire is to get back
her two children, Hector and Estrella. Maria remarries Esteban for the sole purpose of winning back the love of her children
- not an easy undertaking, since her children regard her as an intruder, come to take the place of their beloved mother, whose
only memory they have of her is the photograph... of another woman. Step by step, Maria wins over her children’s hearts
without revealing the kinship between them. Through her tender guidance Maria teaches them some valuable life lessons and
morals. However, Maria has yet to deal with her biggest problem, Esteban. She unexpectedly finds herself caught up in a heartrending
dilemma, for she realizes that she has never stopped loving her husband, and he, in turn, loves her still. Now, her aching
heart hardened by twenty years of loneliness, must choose between her search for justice, and finding the strength to forgive
him.
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