Contra viento y marea is a Mexican

Mexico

The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of...

 telenovela

Telenovela

A telenovela is a limited-run serial dramatic programming popular in Latin American, Portuguese, and Spanish television programming. The word combines tele, short for televisión or televisão , and novela, a Spanish or Portuguese word for "novel"...

 aired from April 25 until November 4, 2005. This was also the last acting role of Beatriz Sheridan

Beatriz Sheridan

Beatriz Sheridan was a Mexican actress and director. She died from a heart attack.-Biography:Elizabeth Ann Sheridan Scarbrough was born in 1934 in Mexico City, Mexico, to an English mother and a Mexican father...

, who died in 2006 of a heart attack.
Natalia Ríos is a young and beautiful girl who lives with her aunt Inés and her aunt's perverted husband Arcadio. After Arcadio tried to rape her, he sells her into a slavery to dirty hoodlums. One of the hoodlums feels sorry for her and helps her to run away.