Cindy Preston, a physical therapist, loses her mother, who had a passion for gambling and left behind huge unpaid debts. To pay them off, the girl will have to work hard. Quite conveniently, her mother’s longtime friend, Katherine, offers Cindy a job in her house. Katherine's son Jack was a victim of the disaster and will have to recover after a long period of treatment in hospital. Expecting to meet a kind of mama's boy, pampered and capricious, Cindy reluctantly goes to the patient, but sees in front of her a courageous handsome man who has nothing in common with the image she drew...