Chepe Fortuna and Niña Cabrales are from different social classes. Chepe is a poor fisherman and Niña is from a wealthy family. He wants to become mayor to stop her wealthy family from building a port to industrialize the town. Niña is an ecologist and dissident from her family. She wants to help the community. Their love is brought together by dreams and the past, though they do not know it.

After spending seventeen years in prison unfairly, a talented songwriter seeks revenge on the men who sank her and killed her family.