A peasant family composed of Don Juan de la Cruz Pizarro, his wife Doña Juliana and their six children who, like the branches of a tree, grow and detach from the trunk that gave them life ..
Dora, the daughter of the owner of the hacienda El Trapiche. Destined to marry the heir of another nearby farm, she asks to travel to the United States. There she meets her fellow countryman Leonardo, with whom she has a torrid affair. When they return to Colombia all kinds of situations will happen to them.