Esperanza 1999 Tagalog Movie: The series follows Esperanza's search for her real family. It seems that Esperanza's mother, Isabel, and father Juan Selgado, got married without the approval of Isabel's mom. To be together Isabel refused to marry the man her mother promised her to, Jaime Elustre, and Juan left the girl he had been dating at the time, Sandra. As the years went by Isabel gave birth to three kids, two daughters and a son. One day Esperanza's mother took her, her sister, and brother on a bus trip to visit someone. Due to a bus accident, they got separated and had Juan believing all of them to be dead. Unknown to the three kids, they were adopted by families in the same neighborhood allowing for them to be good friends. Esperanza, the eldest, was adopted by a poor family. She was never told she was adopted. She grew up letting her adoptive mother Selya mistreat her, such as treating her like a slave while she lavished love on her own kids JunJun and Andrea. Her adoptive father Raul did nothing to help her. The only happy moments in her life was being with her childhood friend and sweetheart Anton. Danilo, the second child, who also did not know he was adopted, was rescued by a poor loving family: Ester and Luis who have a son named Noel, who treated him as if he were their own son. Cecille, the youngest, was adopted by a rich couple named Belinda and Mayor Joaquin Montejo who is very controlling and secretly beats her.