In a small city in northeastern Brazil, a poor family goes though many hardships and pains while seeking a better life.

The Miracle of Love tells the dramatic story of Sarah and Pedro, two children who suffer from the death of their father and the constant aggression of their mother Madalena. Madalena lives immersed in a psychological crisis, due to the sudden loss of her husband in a terrible accident on Christmas Eve. In one of these crises, the mother attacks the children and ends up losing custody of them. Sarah and Pedro are taken to Pedrinhas Orphanage.

The drama tells the story of Cristina, a poor girl who longs for better days, but in life Cristina carries a pain, the death of her mother during her birth and the abandonment of her father a few days after her birth.