Malvaloca is a good girl who goes wrong until she finds a good man that really loves her, yet her past marks her life.

Fearing that her niece Rosita will abandon her true love and enter into a marriage of convenience, doña Juanita tells her the story of when, many years ago, she fell in love with an accountant who worked in a circus.

Based on a play

Fernando, who has returned to his hometown after studying in Brussels, finds a strange suicide note written by his father ten years earlier.