The story of Paula Bernal a music enthusiast who earns a living playing live music at bars around Mexico City. Paula meets Rogelio Iturbide the two fall madly in love, get married, and decide to move to Rogelio’s hometown of Morelia, without knowing how the Iturbide family would react to their union. Once in Morelia, the lovebirds are met by Rogelio’s mother, Martina Rangel a very powerful and traditional woman who the locals refer to as La Monarca de Morelia and is profoundly resistant to Rogelio’s newfound cosmopolitan view on life. Martina, feeling threatened by Paula’s influence over her son, declares war on her new daughter-in-law and will stop at nothing to split them up.