Caray, Caray!

In Jalisco, in the beautiful town of Tequila, an ardent, pure and strong love rises, just like the famous liquor that carries the name of this hot, fertile region where it is produced.

Teresa Hernández, called Gaviota, is a fieldworker who travels across the country with her mother Clara, working the harvests. Every year, they come back to Tequila for the harvest of the blue agave [See How Tequila Is Made] at the Hacienda called La Montalveña.

This hacienda is the property of Don Amador, patriarch of the Montalvo family, a family with a long history in the production of tequila. As the story begins, Don Amador knows his death is near; he arrives to pass his last days in this land he loves so much.

When Don Amador dies, his family comes together for the funeral. His grandchildren - Rodrigo and Rodrigo's cousin Aarón - arrive from London, where they are enrolled in doctoral programs. The cousins were raised like brothers, but their grandfather's will wakens ambition in Aarón, as the control of the family fortune will go to the family of the first grandson who sires a son. Aarón feels confident, knowing that Rodrigo has never been able to make love; however, Rodrigo's destiny changes with the arrival of Gaviota in his life.

Rodrigo and the beautiful fieldworker, in the moment they meet, feel for the first time the disturbing call of love; their bodies awaken a passion which dominates them. Both surrender themselves to it completely.

Rodrigo promises Gaviota that he will return and marry her after he receives his doctorate in a year's time. Not long after, Gaviota discovers she is pregnant. Without having an idea of the size of the world, the innocent young woman decides to go to England and find Rodrigo. Deceived by a local photographer who promises help, Gaviota falls into the hands of a band of white slavers (tratantes de blancas - ?) who send her to a Parisian bordello.

The valiant young woman escapes and begins her voyage in search of the man she loves. Alone, without knowing the language, she has only her faith and grand love to sustain her in the worst moments. Aided by a generous Italian and a group of English nuns, she will return to Mexico to find a life much different than the one she left behind: a life of sadness and deception; a life in the big city, where ambition, rancor and lies reign, a life which may turn to stone the innocent heart which began this journey.

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