A businesswoman accustomed to life in the city has to leave all her comforts and move to La Tormenta, her father's ranch, which she must make profitable. Upon arriving at her destination, María Teresa finds that this won't be an easy task, since she's now in a world that is alien to her. She discovers that the worst thing about the place is that she has to develop a relationship with the ranch's overseer, Santos Torrealba, a country man with a reputation as a womanizer and seducer. From the moment their eyes meet, it is obvious to both of them that they are too different to live under the same roof. But the more they try to keep a distance from each other, the more intense the passion between them grows, forcing María Teresa and Santos to live out a stormy love affair in which their hatred for each other gives way to the purest love that they have ever known.