My Love, My Sin

Nora is a poor young woman filled with dreams who lives in the beautiful city of Patzcuaro. Her father and evil stepmother Isaura decide to marry her off to a rich man so that she can have a better life; on her father's deathbed she swears to marry a rich man. After her father dies. Heriberto Reyes begins to harass Nora; when he tries to molest her, she fires a gun at him and lands in jail--with a bad image. His wife Gertrudis has made Nora's life a living hell with help from Nora's ex-boyfriend Alfredo. Practicaly driven out of town, Nora and her stepmother move to Morelia to live with her Aunt Alejandra and her goddaughter Casilda, who is the opposite of what Nora symbolizes like beauty, inside and out. Nora meets the love of her life, Arturo, a pilot when she attempts suicide and he saves her. Over time their love grows, and Nora becomes jealous of women like Gisela, and her aunt's goddaughter Casilda. Gisela's husband Evaristo and Leonardo also admire Nora's beauty like Heriberto did, which makes Casilda jealous because she is in love with Leonardo. Later, Isaura discovers that Casilda isn't really Alejandra's goddaughter, but her REAL daughter. She discovers that Alejandra kept it secret because Casilda's father is Nora's dad. Isaura hides this from Casilda until the day that Isaura poisons her with an apple so Casilda can inherit Alejandra's money and split it with greedy Isaura. On another side of town, Paulina lives with her father and brother, and becomes a journalist for Juan Carlos Orellana, who falls in love with her. These characters' lives cross when Arturo goes to Miami as part of his pilot career and in a chance encounter he accidentally sleeps with Paulina. Meanwhile, Nora discovers she's pregnant and Isaura is furious because she wanted to marry her off to a rich man. Paulina is also pregnant after her encounter with Arturo. Nora and Paulina run into each other different times in their lives and discover that they have the same tastes--even in men. When Arturo tells Nora that Paulina is pregnant by him, Nora gets furious and decides to raise her baby alone; she doesn't even tell Arturo that there will be one. Isaura's rage over Nora's pregnancy drives her to tell Nora, after she gives birth, that her baby died--and she actually switches it with Casilda's, who was born the same night but died because Casilda overdosed on aspirin. Now alone in the world, Nora makes a drastic change in her life: she becomes a cold woman who exploits men for