Jo?o Bento, heir to the Falc?o ranching empire in the Pantanal, has spent his life yielding to no one but his tyrannical father.
When Rosário Duarte returns to the land where she once lived as the cook's daughter, she comes back a veterinarian determined to control her own future.
Their forbidden reunion burns through flood season and secret nights, until Jurandir Falc?o decides she threatens both his son's arranged marriage and his hold on the estate.
Under that pressure, Bento humiliates Rosário before the whole region and drives her from the ranch.
He does not know that the woman he sent into the storm is carrying his child.
