The strongest love is that which can demonstrate its own fragility.

Serena is a beautiful young Filipina girl who was adopted by a wealthy Italian family when she was just a baby. When she discovers that her adoptive mother; an Italian countess, is arranging a wedding of convenience for her, she escapes to the Philippines, a country that has fascinated her since she was a child because of the stories she heard from her Filipino nanny and those told to her by her adoptive father of Filipino roots. In the Philippines she meets and falls in love with Tenten, a boy who was also adopted, but by a poor family and forced to take unconventional jobs to feed his family.