Brothers Daniel and Julio fight to escape a violent and poor Caracas neighborhood by playing soccer. Daniel wishes to go professional while Julio supports the family with dirty money. The opportunity of a lifetime comes when a talent scout invites them to the local football club. However, after their mother is killed in a shootout, each brother is forced to decide what's more important: family, revenge, or achieving their dreams.

"Hijos de la tierra" presents a drama set a little before the 1920s, in which scattered news, stories and rumors spread the presence of a new wealth, oil, leading to the suspicion that a great change was about to take place.

This film is based on the controversial case of real life on the murder of the student from Santa Rosa Catholic University by a country famed psychiatrist. The story then begins when a young woman named Sofía Méndez Contreras was found dead. The detectives Daniel Estevez and Eduardo Chacón will begin a hard investigation to catch the suspect of the crime; the first suspect is an important and renowned psychiatrist, called Elías Aponte. The only incriminating evidence is the written of the victim in her personal diary and blog online. The detectives must appeal their knowledge to determinate if the victims notes are real or just a fantasy created by a psychiatric patient.

Andrés and Julissa now parents to a seven year old Carlitos struggle to live happily as a family despite being fervent fans of rival teams and of Vicente's (Julissa's father) disapproval.