Marimar is an innocent girl who lives on the beach with her elderly grandparents. They are very poor, and sometimes, Marimar has to steal to keep food on the table. One day she finds herself in need and she goes to the Hacienda Santibañez to steal some vegetables and eggs for her family. The foreman catches her redhanded and attempts to take advantage of her; he tells her that she can take the vegetables if she lets him kiss her. Marimar resists and her screams bring Sergio, the spoiled son of the house, running. He defends her and then tells her that under all her grime she is "beautiful." Marimar falls in love with him on the spot. And when Sergio hatches a plot to revenge himself on his family because they won't give him his half of the inheritance, insisting that he settle down once and for all, he concieves of a plan to marry the "dirty girl from the beach" to humiliate them. Marimar, dazzled, agrees to marry Sergio and falls into his fiendish plot without knowing that her own father, an extremely wealthy man who abandoned her mother, is looking for her now to make her his heir... |
