"Happiness and Pride are Incompatible" is the basic lesson of this story of selfishness, passion, love and deceit. It is a story about gambling with love. Ana Cristina is as beautiful as she is arrogant. She has been accustomed to having her own way with total disregard for the feelings of others.

She is about to be married to Damián when she discovers that he is unfaithful to her. Ana Cristina decides to take revenge on her fiancé and her own father, who has sided with Damián for reasons of interest. To this end, Ana Cristina ruthlessly manipulates Emiliano, a civil engineer who is newly arrived in Los Arrecifes and is immediately enamoured of her.

Ana Cristina enfolds him in her web of lies but she is about to learn that you cannot go through life crushing everyone without consequences. Through pain and tears, Ana Cristina will learn that a broken heart is not healed with remorse alone but only through the power of love and sacrifice.