After Celso's death, Jaime has become a great support for Clara. He can no longer repress what he feels for her and confesses his feelings. Clara does not seem ready to begin another relationship, but eight years later, the situation is very different. Don Gustavo and Catalina are then forced to confront what they have kept silent about for so long, to the bewilderment of Doña Inés, who cannot understand her husband's anguish or why her daughter is drifting further and further away from the family.

Jaime, like his father before him, is tormented after discovering the great family secret and distances himself even further from Clara, unable to confess it to her. Faced with her husband's apathy, Clara takes charge of the cannery and seeks a new partner to expand the business. An agreement that leads her to travel to Madrid and wrestle with whether or not to meet Plácido. Upon her return, Clara is finally forced to confront the truth — a deeply painful moment that will nonetheless allow her to piece together her life at last.