Carlos Martínez is an undocumented Mexican who lives in Los Angeles. He is an honest and hardworking man who has the constant fear of being deported and losing his two sons: Luís and Rodrigo. His great dream has been to give them a better life, but his desire is overshadowed when his eldest son, Rodrigo, disappears without a trace and joins a gang. Meanwhile, Carlos will try to protect and keep Luís away from the dangerous networks that plague the city. In his desperate attempt to take care of him he will meet Adela, a gang member who will steal his heart.

Gina, a modern business woman in her late forties, has a lover named Adrian, a journalist, who she sees once in a while just to have sex. They are both attracted to the historic figure of Pancho Villa: he admires his power while she admires his virility. As Gina helps Adrian to write a book about Villa, she discovers the similarity between Villa's relation to women to that of Adrian and hers, and that Villa's revolution never included her, nor the rest of the female half of the human species. Can the love of a woman and a man survive machismo?

El descubrimiento de un diario, escrito en 1848 en Texas, territorio mexicano, detona en Miranda la decisión para viajar, ilegalmente a esa tierra, en búsqueda de sus raíces y su origen y desentrañar las incógnitas escritas por doña Amalia Sámano.

La telenovela narra la historia de Aurelio Casillas (Rafael Amaya), uno de los narcotraficantes más importantes de México en los años 90. La única ambición de Aurelio era convertirse en el narco más poderoso de México, sin importarle ser cauteloso y mucho menos llamativo. Logró tener fortuna, mujeres, casas, edificios y mansiones sin mucho esfuerzo.