 When she meets Santos she instantly falls in love with him seeing as he reminds her of her first love Asdrubal.In him, she thinks she can find happiness and that he can help her change and become a different person.Santos is very attracted to Barbara and genuinely cares for her and wants to help save her from herself, they go through a long, drama-filled romance in which he is never sure he should be with her because of all the horrible things he hears of her and it is only until she is raped a second time and almost killed by "Chepo", one of the same men that raped her as a girl, that he admits he is in love with her.