Things started to fade when Mart began neglecting his boyfriend duties to Sandra and even ignored her efforts to save their relationship.
With high hopes for the future, Sandra decided to break up with him and left him a letter professing her love and her willingness to wait for him.
Since his high school days, Tim is a carefree bachelor who only thinks of himself, while Jung Won is a Korean student and social worker assigned in an international NGO in the Philippines.
Growing up in a poor family, Vin-zl strived hard to excel in her studies in order to give them a better life especially after her sister got pregnant.
Joy's regular visits, however, also pave the way for her to meet Rustom, a young inmate who captivates her heart and causes tension between her and her mother.
In the middle of her search to gain her parents' acceptance came a little angel in the form of Lester, a Filipino-German child left by his prostitute mother.
The first part tells the story from the vantage point of Idai, a mother whose child disappeared and was allegedly abducted by an unknown woman.
Despite the hardships in life, she and her husband Alfredo strived hard to give their children what they needed and showered them with overflowing love and affection.
However, in the midst of her journey, her fighting spirit began to crumble as her acting career was not taking flight, while her fellow artists had already gone their way to stardom.
A hardworking and loving father who wants nothing but to give his family a good life, Ryan had his dreams shattered when he suffered a stroke that paralyzed half of his body and also affected his speech.
Leaving their younger siblings Nino, Nina, and Baby to Demie, Rosa cries everyday as she longs for her children because she, Lan, Marie, and Manuel have to stay in Iligan to find cure for their father.
Of all their pain and challenges in life, the siblings never give up on each other until they all succeed in life-with Marie and Nina who are now registered nurses, Lan and Baby who are now engineers, Angie a computer analyst, and Nino a seaman.
Hershey Hilado (5) grows up in an environment of physical and emotional abuse caused by her own mother, Emy (26).
Hershey's father, Jimmy (26) left Iloilo, along with her younger brother Malick (3), when he found out about Emy's affair with a Chinese national in Hong Kong.
At 16 years old, after being forced to marry a foreigner almost thrice her age, Hershey manages to escape from her mother and flies to Manila, with the help of Dongdong's friend, Raul (late 70s).
With only P1,000 in her pocket, Hershey is faced with another ordeal as she becomes homeless for almost two years until she finds her relatives from her father's side in Lipa, Batangas.
Dolores (late 40s) and Belen (early 30s) take Hershey in until she finds herself in an online dating site where she meets Scott (30s), an Australian national whom she truly falls in love with.
Currently, through the help of her business, an Australia-based women's fashion label called "Ohmagosh," Hershey (24) fulfills her promise to her grandfather to always make sure that her siblings live a good life.
Early on, Roy (Yves Flores) was made to believe that life is a never-ending cycle of starvation and menial farming jobs alongside his parents and six siblings.
Paired as a 'love team' in school, Allan (Iñigo) and Lou Ann (Maris) got teased a lot by their friends and classmates.
Christian gives life to the story of Ben, son of actress Helen Vela (Gloria Diaz) and the sibling of Princess Punzalan (Ritz Azul).
Growing up in the public eye, Ben was a target for bullying and received many hurtful comments from people concerning his physical features and especially because he was an illegitimate child.
Mica Barrero, who competed and became a finalist in the recently concluded “The Voice Teens,” was devastated when she learned about her father's extra-marital affair when she was a young girl.
As soon as the war broke out, Loloy immediately brought his wife Grace and son Brian to safety and went straight to his Muslim employers' house.
She devoted her teenage years to earn their love and acceptance until one night, she dreamed of her biological family and this sparked her curiosity and desire to find them.
Everything seemed perfect until one day, Pio got rushed to the hospital and was diagnosed with viral encephalitis, a rare brain disease that affects the memory of the person.
Everything was going smoothly until Bernadette found a new set of friends and started to feel embarrassed that she has to carry her older brother to school.
Ever since she found out she got infected with HIV through her late husband, Liza experienced countless bullying and mocking by people surrounding her and her family.
Way before he made dresses for Anne Curtis, Kim Chiu, Kris Aquino and Miss Universe 2015 Pia Wurtzbach, Rey already knew that he was gay like his brother Brian.
Although unexpected, their father eventually accepted Brian's identity, but Rey still continued his pretense and even pursued a career as a flight attendant.