[2] The series stars Aracely Arámbula as Gabriela Suárez, Jorge Luis Pila as Alejandro Beltrán,[3] Christian Bach as Antonia Guerra and Gonzalo García Vivanco as Lucho.

However, the title is also a reflection of both the protagonist and the antagonist's struggle to conquer power, authority and respect in a labor field traditionally deemed to be a man's job.

Gabriela Suárez is the only woman who works in the gold mine that gives life and name to the town of San Pedro del Oro.

When she was sixteen, Gabriela was friends and related to Fernando, the youngest son of Antonia Guerra, La Patrona, for the inhabitants of San Pedro del Oro, the most powerful and feared woman in town.

La Patrona, as Antonia is called, is a fearsome and willful beautiful woman who sends for her eldest son Alejandro Beltrán, handsome and rich, to take care of the mine.

Antonia Guerra and her accomplices, for the ambition of gold, and Irene Montemar for stealing Alejandro's love from Gabriela, will conspire to destroy her and El Tigre.

Antonia, upon discovering from Irene that David is Fernando's son, decides to attract her grandson and turn him against her mother by showering him with gifts and a rich boy's life.

And she also meets Lucho Vampa, a mischievous and friendly swindler, a handsome, charming and resourceful man, who has feigned madness in prison, and then, once in the asylum, escapes and achieves his freedom.

Gabriela recovers her father's treasure and goes abroad with Vampa and Constanza, where the latter receives an incalculable sum of money, an inheritance from her deceased uncle.

Spending money and luxuries, Gabriela leaves everyone speechless and surrendered to her charms, and she begins to carry out her revenge that she has planned with Vampa and Constanza.

She will face the conflict of recovering her son's love and accepting Alejandro, but for that she has to unmask her main enemy, Antonia Guerra and become La Patrona.