Plot

Ángel Morante comes out of prison after 20 years. He decides to return to the same place where he lost everything, hoping to start over again. When he arrives at the ranch where he used to work, he finds out that his old patron has died, and his daughter Magdalena is now the person in charge. Meanwhile, Tomás Villamizar travels from the city to the same rural region of "los llanos", looking to connect with the memories of his deceased father, who died when Tomás was a small boy. His uncle refuses to let him stay at his place, forcing him to look for a job at Magdalena's ranch. The life of these three characters will change forever, when they find out their lives are intertwined.

Angel comes out of prison after twenty years, with only one idea in his head, to return to the land he knows and become again the only thing he knows how to be: a plainsman, but not just any plainsman, but one of the best the region has ever seen. Tomás returns to the plain where he was born, after twenty years since his mother took him away, after the accident in which his father died. He has only one thing on his mind, to be a llanero like his father was, and he will find in Angel that father figure from whom he will learn everything about the labors of the plain. Angel in turn will see in Thomas the son he never had, to pass on all his knowledge. After his father's death, Magdalena has taken charge of the cattle ranch that bears his name. Her only ambition is to continue maintaining the ranch as in the best times when her father was alive, so as not to have to sell it to the palm growers and leave the plainsmen of the region without work. The lives of the three will change when they meet in La Magdalena. There Angel will meet Javier, one of the causes of all his misfortune, the culprit of the death of his wife and unborn child. Thomas will learn not only that his father did not die in an accident, but that Angel is the man who murdered him. Magdalena will not be able to avoid falling in love with a man whose dark past she does not know. And Angel, even if he resists, will see in Magdalena a new hope to continue his life. Angel will have to decide between revenge and love.

Argilio, Magdalena's right hand man, and the main one interested in selling La Magdalena, has been displaced by Angel. And after Magdalena discovers that he has made deals behind her back with the Palma growers, he ends up being expelled from the herd. Argilio takes advantage of Tomas' hatred for Ángel and Javier's fear that Ángel will end his revenge and take revenge on his daughter María Carmen, for what he did to her years ago. Argilio manipulates them and uses them in his plan to kill Angel. La Magdalena is in danger of disappearing, unless Angel can take a large herd of cattle to a distant place. To achieve this he needs a group of llaneros willing to take the rodeo as it was done in the old days, along the arreo roads. Tomás joins the group of llaneros, as part of the plan to kill Angel. But when the time comes to pull the trigger, to kill his dad's killer, Tomás realizes that he has no spirit for revenge, and he spares Angel's life, even though he doesn't forgive him for killing his dad. Argilio, frustrated and accused by Tomás, kidnaps María Carmen, Javier's daughter, to get the money he needs to escape from there. In the midst of the rescue, Tomás and Ángel learn the true story behind the death of Esperanza, Ángel's wife, and their unborn child. Javier looks forced to confess that he, and not his brother Francisco, was guilty of the ranch fire in which Esperanza, who was pregnant, died, which led Angel to murder Francisco, in front of his own son, Tomás. Angel and Tomas, overcoming all their hatred and resentment, decide that it is more important to rescue Maria Carmen than their own desires for revenge, and together, they manage to rescue Javier's daughter. Tomás forgives Angel and Angel, moved, forgives Javier. However, Javier will have to pay for his crime, leaving his daughter in Tomas' care. Angel stays with Magdalena, and although life in the plain is becoming increasingly difficult and the future of La Magdalena and of the plainsmen who live there, Angel is sure the worst is over.