Marichuy was given to an orphanage as soon as she was born. When she turned 14, she decided to run away from the center and began to wander the streets until a hospitable washerwoman, Candelaria, gave her shelter and became the mother she never had. From that moment on, her life seemed to take the right path until an incident brought her to justice where she met Juan Miguel San Román, a psychoanalyst who fell in love with Marichuy's beauty and sweetness*.