Plot
In 1965, Andrea travels to Buenos Aires, Argentina with her husband, Gregorio, his 2 sisters and a group of family friends. During the trip, one in their group, Martha, is murdered in her hotel room and Andrea is discovered at the crime scene holding the gun with which Martha was killed. As all evidence initially points to Andrea as the killer, she is tried and sentenced to prison for Martha's murder.
Her husband and friends believe she is guilty and abandon her in Argentina and return to Mexico City vowing never to mention Andrea's name again and Gregorio decides to lie to his children when they grow up making them adore the portrait of a woman that doesn't exist and also make them believe that woman is their dead mother in order to erase Andrea from all of their lives convinced she will never return and finish her days in that prison where he abandoned her.
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