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Jorge and Andrea are frivolous young lovers always looking for a good time—and an easy ride. Searching for a way to get rich without much effort, they think they’ve hit the jackpot when they meet Cecilia, a beautiful and naďve young woman about to come into a huge inheritance.

The plan is for Jorge to seduce her, marry her, and steal her fortune.

After 20 years Victoria returns to Florida with her lovely adopted daughter to destroy the Montero family whose members took everything Victoria ever loved.

"El Desprecio" is based on two distinct storylines. The first focuses on a young woman, her struggles, misfortunes, loneliness, loves, happiness, sadness and continuous search of personal dignity. The second vividly illustrates ambition for power and money.

Both are played out by a parade of legendary characters whose actions reveal the extremities of devious plotting, intrigue and even murder.

Isabel Sarmiento fell in love with Camilo Rivera and gave herself to him without knowing that Saúl Bejarano, a primitive landowner who exercised power on men and land, had already decided to marry her.

This was the beginning of the twentieth century.

Coral, Topacio and Esmeralda are half sisters, each uniquely beautiful, but tragically unhappy. Their beauty has become a curse as they live tormented lives.

Unaware of each other’s existence, their only connection is a crescent-moon birthmark, and a long forgotten father, Asdrubal Blanco, a legendary womanizer and jewel thief who was forced to flee the country.

Barbarita stands out for her beautiful face and skin. She endures a life of poverty, and is forced to run away from her town due to a crime she did not commit. Her life will totally change when she becomes involved with the Aristiguieta family, and when she meets her new love, Miguel, a successful workaholic man.

This is the foundation of a great love story, one that emerges between two worlds involving lies and money, and whose flavor intertwines in a rich aroma of milk and coffee.