Rubi is a gorgeous woman of boundless ambition. Her beauty drives men crazy, but she is only in search of someone to get her out of where she lives, a classic working-class neighbourhood with all the excesses of her social class. Rubàgrew up with Refugio, her mother; Cristina, her older sister; and Fernandita, her niece, in a deprived home. Rubi promises to leave that place where so much misfortune has marked them. She swears she will never breathe again the terrible scent of poverty in her life, no matter what she must do. She is going to make it. Even if her life is gone in it.