This is the story of a commander who takes over a town already devastated by cholera. What no one knows is that his real purpose is to collect a huge debt, which he himself says the town owes him for having taken matters into its own hands.

Juana, a peasant girl, is mistaken for her twin sister, Chana, whom she has never met and who is now a famous singer, and is kidnapped in her place by Chana's ex-husband.