 Fearing for the life of her beloved, Eulalia helps him escape, while he vows to return one day to get her back and bring her with him.Months later, Eulalia gives birth to a daughter, Lucia Helena (known only as Helena), whom she teaches to wait for her father.Fifteen years later, a stranger named Teobaldo Faruk, son of an Egyptian father (deceased) and a Brazilian mother, comes to town and soon becomes fascinated with Eulalia.