Caribbean Sea, 1598. After surviving an attack by pirates who killed the entire crew, young Catalina Solis, exhausted and depressed by the terrible murder of her brother during this attack, finally reaches a desert island. After spending more than a year there in hardship, she sees a ship arriving on the shores of the island. The captain decides to introduce her as his unknown mestizo son. From that moment on, she turns into Martin Nevarez and discovers the freedom and loyalty of the New World, full of dangerous smugglers, corsairs and outcasts.