In a small fishing village, there lives a barrio girl with a beauty that brought her so much misfortune in the beginning. Eva (Cristine Reyes) comes from a poor but loving family. After losing their father at an early age, she and her mother Edeng (Sylvia Sanchez) have been working hard to make ends meet. This is no easy task for Eva who also dreams of finishing school and someday settling down with the love of her life, Joel (Jason Abalos). Life for Eva is simple, however, her beauty and innocent sensuality seems to always complicate everything, more importantly her sweet and pure relationship with Joel. In their barrio alone, men drool over her and desire her immensely, often causing trouble to their family and friends. Fortunately, her loyal friend - Daldit (Hazel Ann Mendoza) is always there to defend her, almost in the same passion that Joel does. However, her simple life takes a wild turn when Val (Baron Geisler), the town's rich kid returns from Manila and shatters her dreams by stealing her virginity through rape. Consequently, Eva's romance with Joel is shattered too and her family gets pushed to the limit. But in her efforts to claim justice, she is only forced to commit a crime. Accidentally stabbing her rapist's father, Don Ismael (Mark Gil), she is sent to jail while her sister dies from a freak accident. But her misfortunes does not stop there... in fact, this is just the beginning. Soon, she escapes from jail and boards a bus to escape from her town until she finds herself in Manila where she rebuild her life and found means to finally get justice and reclaim the simple life she once had. And while in Manila, Eva finds herself a job as a model after saving the life of a manager of a beauty agency in the name of "Tita Patty"(Rustom Padilla/Bebe Gandanghari) from an attacker. Unfortunately, Val continues to track her down in Manila but was sent to jail after he committed murder and after raping Eva the second time. After a while, Eva's job progresses, and soon she was appearing in magazines. Then one day, Tita Patty told her that a Japanese company accepted them. Eva and Tita Patty then took a flight to Japan and there she meets Mr. Toshiro Fonda (Lito Legaspi), the head of the company. Meanwhile, Eva's mother recovered and sometime later, they got to talk to each other. But while in Japan, Eva becomes unaware that Mr. Toshiro plans to marry her. In addition, she was impersonated by a woman in making a scandal. Eva said she became unaware of this, and tells Mr. Toshiro that she wasn't the woman in the video. The kind Toshiro believes Eva and they soon married, but a week after that, he died due to heart complication caused by his envious nephew Kenji (Ya Chang). |
