Rubi is a beautiful young university student who lives together with her mother, Mrs. Refugio, and her sister, Cristina, in a poor neighborhood. Alejandro falls in love with Rubi after their first encounter at the airport. Hector manages to meet Maribel. Maribel tells Hector about her disability.
Besides her beauty, Rubi is also very poor. Her mother Refugio and sister Cristina are her only family, and Cristina is the only one who works to pay the bills and part of Rubi's half-scholarship. Rubi becomes very ashamed of her poverty and despises her ghetto neighborhood.