Caray, Caray!

A story of love wherein rancor and jealousy are the principal enemy.

The heart of the rich landowner Álvaro Montellano falls in the clutches of jealousy when he reads a letter he believes destined for his spouse Soledad.

The letter makes him think his wife is betraying him with a corporal, José, and that his daughter Alina is the fruit of that betrayal.

Without listening to her protests of innocence, he locks Soledad away at a remote coffee plantation [not magic chocolate? too bad], Hidden Mountain, and waits with hatred for Alina to return home so she also can be a victim of his vengeance.

Without suspecting the sorrow which awaits her, Alina lives a happy romance with Emilio Valtierra, an attractive military man and horseman who has found in her the love of his life.

Full of hopes, Alina arrives at the hacienda, only to encounter a father become an monster of rage, who, with injury and threats, sends her to "Hidden Mountain" (Sierra Escondida) to live in a CAVE with an old folk healer, Luba. [A CAVE? A FAITH HEALER? OH GOODIE!!!!]

In order to protect her mother's life, Alina agrees to live in these miserable conditions, and from that time the people of Sierra Escondida know her as "Flower of the Field."

When Emilio arrives in search of Alina, Álvaro tells him the girl and her mother have left the country. Emilio feels deceived, thinking the love she swore to him was a lie.

Two years pass and Emilion, now surly and bitter, encounters "Flower of the Field" (Flor del Campo) whom he does not recognize due to her simple, humble appearance. [Hmm, wouldn't you think he'd recognize the love of his life even if she were wearing a paper bag?]

As he remembers Alina, the rancor he still holds makes him treat the girl harshly, but he can't deny he is attracted to her. When Álvaro convinces him Alina died in an accident, Emilio, full of sadness, decides to marry Flor del Campo, but the ceremony is interrupted by Álvaro, who will not permit Alina to be happy and who wounds Emilio gravely.

Immediately a woman named Thelma appears in church and claims she is pregnant by Emilio; she makes the priest marry them "en artículo de muerte." [Some special "marrying an almost dead guy" rule, I guess.]

But Emilio survives and, now, perhaps too late, Alina must struggle against Thelma's intrigues for the love of Emilio, and also against the terrible lie which destroyed her mother's life and converted her own father into her worst enemy.