Plot
Elisa has just been widowed from her deceased husband, Esteban, leaving her to raise her 3 children: Paola, Daniel and Anita. However, Esteban's mother, Elvira, wants to steal his inheritance and hires Julian Ledesma, a vile and ambitious lawyer in love with Paola, to steal it. However, Paola wants nothing to do with Julian and wants to be a skater, since the ice rink inspires her.
Gonzalo is a good man, but his wife has abandoned him and leaves him with his two children, Martín and Luisito, so now he must put all his effort and effort to prevent his family from falling apart. Martín dreams of being a great singer and signing a contract with a record company.
One day, Elisa collides with Gonzalo and despite the mishap, begins a beautiful friendship that eventually turns to marriage. When Paola and Martín meet each other, there is a hatred between them that later becomes love, despite the interest that Martín feels towards Paola's friend, Vanessa Del Moral, the daughter of the rink owner of the skating rink Paola frequents and works as a waitress.
Noticing the interest that Martin and Paola have, and after learning Paola is involved with a skating team at the rink, Vanessa becomes a rival to Paola and tries to destroy their relationship by registering with the team in order to compete against her old friend. At one point, Paola and Vanessa are paired on a team to compete against another team in a competition. During the event, when Vanessa and Paola are the ones skating, Vanessa causes Paola to suffer a serious accident by throwing her against the rink windows. The entire public - especially especially Julián Ledezma, and Paola's family - are shocked by what transpired as Paola is immediately hospitalized. Despite a grim prognosis from the doctors, Paola starts walking again after surgery. Meanwhile, Vanessa goes on tour with Martin. However, due to constant jealousy, Martin asks Vanessa to leave.
Not long after, Vanessa begins to show symptoms of an illness that worries her mother, and after close examination, learns she is terminally cancer-stricken, giving her only a short time to live. Heartbroken, Vanessa's mother tells Martin about her condition, and asks him to marry his daughter to make Vanessa happy before she passes. Martín is hesitant to accept, but when Vanessa faints before him and Paola, he accepts and visits Vanessa to ask her hand in marriage, to which Vanessa accepts.
The marriage plans are eventually made public, and Paola cannot help feeling bad about the situation, but she accepts it willingly. On the day of the wedding, Vanessa collapses before the ceremony could begin. The bride is moved to her home, where all the guests are waiting. After talking to Paola, Vanessa dies.
Paola and Martín resume their relationship, but Martin's conflicts with his manager get bigger, and the young man decides to confront him, resulting in Martín being unfairly incarcerated. Desperate, Paola requests Julian Ledesma's help, who agrees to take Martin out of jail in exchange for Paola marrying Julian. Paola reluctantly agrees, Martin is released, and his former manager is arrested. However, when Martin looks for her and finds that she married Julian, he is advised by his father to forget about her. Martin later goes on tour abroad with his group, thinking he has nothing left to stop him. However, when Gonzalo decides to visit Martin, he is killed in a plane crash, thus leaving Elisa widowed once more.
The marriage between Julian and Paola faces some problems, and while more obstacles emerge for Paola and her family, happiness ends up triumphing.
