A wealthy widow named Doña Flora offers to pay for the weddings and provide money to twelve couples with limited means so they can enjoy their honeymoons. Two strangers, Julieta and Jaime, decide to get married solely to obtain the money, split it, and go their separate ways. Five years later, they cross paths again—she is a successful artist while he has failed as a scientist—just as the woman who sponsored the weddings decides to reunite the group.