A 70-year-old uncle marries a 20-year-old woman as his second wife in order to have a son, but on their wedding night, an unexpected incident occurs…

Don Tomás was a man whose name carried power across the fertile valleys of Oaxaca.
At seventy, his body had begun to weaken, but his gaze still held the authority of someone used to owning everything around him. A wealthy landowner with vast fields of corn and agave, he had built a life of success—yet something was missing deep inside him.
For many years, he had shared his life with Doña Rosa, a loving wife whose absence, after her passing a decade earlier, left a cold emptiness in his home. Together they had raised three daughters, all now married, but in Tomás’s mind, they were not enough to carry on his legacy.
He longed for a son—someone to inherit his name and rule his land after him. Despite his age, he refused to accept that his time had passed.
That stubborn desire led him to remarry.
His choice shocked the village. He selected Marisol, a young woman barely twenty years old, whose beauty stood in stark contrast to her family’s poverty. Her parents, desperate to save their sick son and drowning in debt, agreed to the marriage in exchange for financial support.
Marisol accepted her fate, not out of love, but out of sacrifice. She saw her youth as the price to secure her family’s survival.
On the night before the wedding, she sat quietly, overwhelmed by fear and sadness, while her mother struggled with guilt. Marisol whispered only one hope—that she would be treated kindly.

The wedding itself became a spectacle.
Don Tomás celebrated proudly, determined to prove he was still strong and capable. The villagers whispered behind his back, criticizing the age gap and the arrangement that felt more like a transaction than a union.
Marisol walked down the aisle in silence, forcing a smile while hiding her fear. To her, it felt less like a wedding and more like stepping into a life she had not chosen.
The celebration was loud and excessive, masking the tension beneath it. Tomás drank heavily, trying to convince himself and others of his renewed strength, while Marisol sat quietly, surrounded by the judgmental stares of his daughters, who feared losing their inheritance.