Valentina, a factory worker who dreams of a career in fashion, tries to run away with her boss's son Ricardo but their families prevent it. Alfonso tries to reconcile with Helena and her father but his efforts end in catastrophe.
After a plane crash kills Alfonso and Ricardo, Guillermo gets a message that reveals either Valentina or Nora is his biological daughter. Helena mourns Alfonso and meets Héctor for the first time.
Valentina and Nora attend the Manrique family funeral, but Patricia blames them for her brother's death and sends them away. Guillermo searches for Valentina and Nora, desperate to know which girl is his daughter.
Valentina discovers she was the victim of Patricia's scam and agrees to sue her for wrongful termination. Helena and Héctor give in to temptation and kiss each other. Ricardo turns up alive at a hospital.
Valentina starts a job at a tailor's shop but her boss sexually harasses her. Patricia learns that her father owed Helena a large amount of money. Camila wakes from a coma. Claudio confesses his feelings to Valentina.
Nora vows to wait as long as it takes for Claudio to develop feelings for her. Renowned fashion mogul Yolanda Pratas offers Valentina a job as an apprentice after viewing her designs. Helena believes that someone is betraying her.
Valentina offers help to Guillermo after meeting him by chance. Patricia and Adelaida team up to prevent Guillermo from finding Valentina or Nora. Ricardo wakes from a coma with no memory.
Valentina and Claudio kiss. Helena finds out that Yolanda is accusing her of theft. Camila wants to become a nun. Valentina is hesitant to continue working at Olimpo Pratas. Ricardo kisses his doctor.
Nora sees Claudio kissing Valentina. Helena suspects Leonardo drugged and sexually assaulted her. Patricia convinces Yolanda to offer her support. Romance blossoms between Consuelo and Horacio. Criminals break in to Olimpo Pratas.
Yolanda blames Valentina for the break-in at Olimpo Pratas. Majo and Leonardo become friends with benefits. Helena arrives at Héctor's house and meets Mina. Valentina confesses to Claudio that she can't stop thinking about him.
Yolanda plans to steal Valentina's designs and make life miserable for her. Leonardo tries to discourage Helena from designing a fashion line for plus-sized women. Helena and Héctor argue over him not telling her about his daughter.
Valentina discovers Yolanda's deception. Leonardo turns himself in for assault, but Héctor claims to be the true culprit. Adelaida tells Patricia about Guillermo's relationship with Yolanda. Helena decides to give Héctor another chance.
Beba accuses Valentina of stealing Yolanda's jewels, but Horacio defends her. Leonardo asks Helena to cancel the fashion show. Yolanda vows to destroy Valentina because she views her talent as dangerous competition.
Ricardo starts regaining his memory with Rosamaría's help. Valentina takes Nora to a modeling school. Claudio asks Valentina to be his girlfriend. Yolanda furthers her vendetta against Valentina by firing her.
Yolanda frames Valentina for theft and fires her. Beba humiliates Valentina. Camila gives Nora modeling classes. Valentina falls in love with a baby from the orphanage named Fatima.
Claudio, seeing Valentina's desperation to adopt Fatima, proposes so they can make a family together. Patricia learns that Guillermo will be taking over all of her father's businesses.
Patricia, fearing poverty because of Guillermo's decisions, begs Yolanda for a job. Leonardo is released from prison. Ricardo manages to remember Valentina's phone number and tries to call her.
Valentina asks Helena for a job. With Rosamaría's help, Ricardo returns to the ranch and is reunited with his sister Patricia. Leonardo finds out Helena is participating in fashion week.
Claudio finds out that Valentina asked Helena for a job and she treated Val poorly. Nora makes Claudio jealous of Ricardo. Patricia discovers that Rosamaría fell in love with Ricardo. Helena hires Val as a seamstress.
Valentina believes she saw Ricardo alive in public, but Nora makes fun of her for thinking so. Horacio breaks the oath he made to his father. Helena promotes Valentina to assistant seamstress.
Ricardo shocks everyone by visiting Valentina to reveal he's still alive. Ricardo and Claudio confront each other over Valentina. Helena is jealous of Patricia's closeness to Héctor.
Ricardo refuses to accept that Valentina is with another man. Helena sells the ranch to Guillermo and he asks to never see her again. Valentina is surprised to see Nora at Helena's fashion house.
Ricardo asks Rosamaría for help winning Valentina back. Valentina and Claudio discover Fatima may lose her sight. Helena plans to fight for Héctor's love.
Nora tries to persuade Valentina to get back together with Ricardo because of his health. Val's approval to adopt Fatima is at risk. Scandal erupts when a campaign goes live using Camila's image without her permission.
Camila defends Helena in front of the press to clear her name. Valentina confesses to Claudio that Ricardo kissed her in front of the Mother Superior at the orphanage. Patricia admits that she witnessed her father kill her mother.
Consuelo tells Valentina that Yolanda also stole her designs in the past. Valentina wants to help Ricardo and Nora manipulates her into giving him another chance. Patricia warns Yolanda that Helena could sue her.
Yolanda tells the press she's launching a men's clothing line with Ricardo as a model. Claudio eavesdrops on Ricardo's phone call to Valentina. Valentina tells Helena that Yolanda has an identical concept for fashion week.
Patricia vows revenge on Enrique. Nora criticizes Valentina for spending all her time with Claudio and Fátima instead of supporting her sister's modeling career. But when Leonardo disrespects Nora, Valentina slaps him.
Ricardo has a relapse and momentarily loses his memory. Valentina and Claudio find out that Fátima is on the verge of death. Nora lies to Héctor that Helena isn't interested in him, she only wants a trophy for her fashion show.
Camila refuses to have surgery to be attractive enough to be a model. Ricardo asks Nora to help him prevent Valentina's wedding to Claudio. Helena sees her boyfriend Héctor kissing her former sister-in-law.
Helena believes that Héctor slept with Patricia. Valentina discovers that Nora is developing an eating disorder. Ricardo contacts Fátima's birth mother. Tempers flare when Claudio and Ricardo confront each other.
Ricardo is determined to prevent Valentina's wedding to Claudio. Valentina slaps Nora for plotting with Ricardo to deceive her. Feeling attacked by her sister, Nora vows revenge Valentina in the worst ways she can find.
Valentina feels guilty for her fight with Nora, but Nora starts plotting revenge. Camila thinks she is in love with Ricardo. Patricia sets a trap to turn Guillermo against Enrique. Nora moves out of her uncle Horacio's house.
Valentina and Claudio meet Analisse, Fátima's birth mother. Nora moves in with Leonardo and clashes with the star model of a fashion show. Guillermo threatens Enrique with a gun, believing that he is stealing from him.
Horacio gives Valentina letters left to her by her mother. Analisse takes custody of Fátima. Camila confesses to Valentina that she loves Ricardo. Meanwhile, Rosa María tries to convince Ricardo to move on from Valentina.
Claudio finds out that Ricardo is about to die. Helena surprises Valentina with an exclusive dress for a dinner with Guillermo. Patricia convinces Enrique to help her destroy Guillermo.
Patricia warns Valentina that Guillermo is dangerous. Valentina doesn't have the heart to tell Nora that they aren't biological sisters. Claudio and Valentina have to postpone their wedding.
Valentina makes it clear to Ricardo that she loves Claudio and has no romantic interest in him. Leonardo steals a high-profile dress to ruin Helena's fashion show. Valentina designs a replacement dress with Majo's help.
Nora tells Valentina that Ricardo is dying. Helena suspects that Valentina or Nora stole the dress from the fashion show. Ricardo forces his affections on Valentina and Claudio misinterprets the situation when he catches them together.
Leonardo tampers with the catering to sicken the models at Helena's show. Patricia arrives at the fashion show to humiliate Val, but Helena intervenes. Leonardo fulfills Nora's dream of being the star model in a fashion show.
Yolanda discovers that Valentina and Nora are sisters. Helena is upset to see Nora working in her fashion show without her authorization. Nora and Camila beg Val to marry Ricardo to make him happy in his last days.
Consuelo advises that Héctor should stay away from Patricia. Helena assures Valentina that Guillermo is a good man. Guillermo invites Val and Nora to a fancy dinner and announces that one of them is his biological daughter.
Héctor tries to reconcile with Helena. Valentina refuses to take the DNA paternity test, but Nora wants to do it. Helena finds out that Valentina or Nora could be her sister. Rosa María tells Ricardo that he is terminally ill.
Helena confesses to Valentina that she hopes they are sisters. Mina convinces Héctor to go back to school. Enrique fears Guillermo will discover that he stole the shelter donations.
Nora manipulates the results of the DNA test to prove she's Guillermo's daughter, while Valentina refuses the test altogether. Leonardo tries to manipulate Nora. Helena and Héctor's romance heats up.
Helena hopes Valentina turns out to be her sister. With the false DNA test, Nora plans to move up in the world as a Vargas. Patricia tries to convince Ricardo that he should marry Nora for her new inheritance.
Valentina unsuccessfully tries to convince Nora not to move into the Vargas mansion. Patricia vows to make Nora's life hell. Rosa Maria warns Valentina that Ricardo may have another health crisis.
Claudio begs Valentina to choose between him and Ricardo once and for all. Nora joins Olympo Pratas and plots against Patricia's interests. Helena's imported lace delivery disappears.
Nora forces Guillermo to buy her a ticket to Madrid Fashion Week after she finds out Valentina was invited. Yolanda threatens Consuelo's life when she attempts to stand up for herself. Helena spies a dress made with her stolen lace.