 "La venganza" is a romantic heroine story, combining elements of Charles Perrault's "Cinderella", George Bernard Shaw's "Pygmalion" and William Shakespeare's "The Taming of the Shrew".María Olivares (Helena Rojo) is a beautiful but poor young provincial woman.Never having known her father and orphaned at a young age, she is raised by her maternal grandfather, Don Maximiliano (José Luis Jiménez).