Serena is a beautiful young Filipino who was adopted by an Italian family with a lot of money when she was just a baby. When she discovers that her adoptive mother; An Italian countess, who is arranging a wedding of convenience for herself, escapes to the Philippines, a country that fascinated her since she was little because of the stories she heard from her Filipino nanny and those told to her by her adoptive father of Filipino roots. In the Philippines he meets and falls in love with Tenten, a boy who was also adopted, but by a poor family and who was forced to accept unconventional jobs to feed his family.