It stars Gabriela Spanic as the title character, while Bernie Paz as the male lead.

Other casts include Sergio de Bustamante, Julieta Egurrola, Adriana Louvier, Marimar Vega, Miriam Higareda, Alberto Guerra, Rafael Sanchez Navarro and Carmen Delgado.

Omar Fierro made special appearance in the first five episodes, and later returns in the final part of the series.

The series premiered on 5 April 2011, 19 days after filming the first scene, at 8:30pm, occupying Prófugas del destino's slot, and ended on 8 November 2011.

Emperatriz (Gabriela Spanic) is an ex-con that has a relationship with Armando (Omar Fierro) who's a married man.

While in the hospital she discovers that Armando betrayed her, he only manipulated her and he developed a scheme where Emperatriz will go to jail for the bank fraud he committed.

Manuel (Rafael Sanchez Navarro) tells her to marry him in exchange of evidence he has against Armando.

At her mother's advice, Emperatriz gave her daughter away to Armando and his wife Alma Rosa, the daughter of Justo del Real (Sergio de Bustamante), the owner of the company del Real.

After a turn of events Esther falls in love with Nico, Quimera and Manuel's son.

Afterwards, at del Real Company, Manuel threatens Emperatriz with a knife but Alejandro saves her.

Shortly after the grand final episode ended, "Emperatriz" quickly became a trending topic (Mexico) in Twitter.

The final rating was 15.1 Copyright Azteca Musica 2011 The solo version of Franco De Vita's "Tan Sólo Tú" was used as the love theme for Elisa and Mauricio.