in the town of la ermita, yucatán, live two families with powerful chili processors in the region, the arangos and the castañons, of which elisa castañon is the daughter of augusto and estefanía castañon, who has a friendship with damían arango, son of rosendo and alfonsina arango. whose friendship was deteriorating due to the enmity of these two families, gael is a child who is cared for by the priest guadalupe "lupe" and who is a friend of paloma, ramona's niece (the village healer), while estefanía's sister, carmina bouvier had a secret relationship with rosendo and they planned to go live in new york city, even though estefanía discovers it and prevents carmina from doing so and then goes to meet with rosendo to speak and while driving in a storm, they suffer a fatal accident after having crossed ramona's cart which saw everything in front of her eyes, this is done in an echo by the town when they know that the two of them were going to leave la ermita together despite this, elisa and damían continue to go out as friends, but both augusto and alfonsina prevent them from doing so, and in the end alfonsina decides that damían should go live in italy for a few years while augusto and carmina end up getting married and which makes himliving hell to elisa blaming her for estefania's death.