Pedro Tercero, the young son of Estebans foreman Segundo at Tres Marias, befriends Blanca, and the two become playmates.

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Even though she was very young-maybe about 6 years old-Clara knew she was in love with this man.

Esteban left his fiance with her family to earn money for their wedding.

One day, Clara had a vision and told her sister Rosa that there would be an accidental death in the family.

The next day, Rosa died in her sleep after drinking poison intended for her father, Senator Severo.

Clara blamed herself for her sisters death, and after accidentally witnessing Rosas autopsy, she decided never to speak again.

At home, his sister, Frula ( Glenn Close ) lived and took care of their sick mother.

Esteban used the money he earned from mining and bought a hacienda, Tres Maras.

He finds many natives living on his land and tells them to work for him for food and shelter.

For the next twenty years, Esteban makes Tres Maras an example of a successful Hacienda.

One day he rapes a peasant girl, Pancha Garca ( Sarita Choudhury ), eventually resulting in the birth of a boy.

Esteban spends some nights with Trnsito, a local prostitute ( Mara Conchita Alonso ), to whom he lends money so she can start a new career in the capital.

At her funeral, Esteban notices that Clara, now all grown up but still not speaking, is in attendance with her parents, who are taking care of her.

Esteban decides to ask for Claras hand, despite Frulas protests that Clara is too emotionally unstable and will not take care of him properly.

When he shows up at the Del Valle familys house, Clara asks him right away if he has come to ask her to marry him, thus speaking again for the first time in twenty years, much to her familys delight.

Having never been treated with such warmth and love before, Ferula is overwhelmed by Claras pure kindness, instantly developing an obsession with her-not a dangerous kind, but more like a situation where Frula feels a fierce need to protect her.

One day, the girl whom Esteban raped, Pancha Garca, appears at the family house with Estebans illegitimate teenage son, Esteban Garca, and asks for money.

Esteban Trueba gives them some money and harshly orders them never to come back, threatening to have his dogs attack them both if they return.

He approaches young Blanca while she is playing alone, holds her in his lap, and gently caresses her body.

He quickly runs out after a few minutes, but this foreshadows dangerous events to come in the future for Blanca.

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