When Choleng falls in love with a priest Julio, her life darkens when the townspeople get back at her when they find out Julio and Choleng are going to leave their community, thinking that Julio would leave his responsibilities in his home town where the village needs help and prayer to heal love? ones. Little did she know that the night they would run away with their soon-to-be-born child to start a new life that a storm changed everything and when Julio gets into an accident leading him to his death one night as Sabel is born and with Julio's death, the townspeople think Choleng's daughter is a curse as bad things occur. She decides not to argue, and refuses and ignores the problems around her. She decides to give Sabel a better future by leaving the village and start a new life. And when Choleng and her mother Amparo are offered help by a common couple among dearest friends, they land a new life in a better community after baby Sabel got sick. But as she grew up, she fights for her family. And when her mother and grandmother great fear of her true identity and look for her father, Choleng does everything in her power and even falls for Jimmy but Margaret is desperate for Jimmy. But, her mother refuses Jimmy's true sincerity and love and even offers her to get married and accepts anything that has happened to her in the past. But, Choleng and Sabel's love for Jimmy and accepting him as a father will only mean to Choleng that she does not want to lose him as for Sabel as she grows up. And even for love, there is a solace she finds this into Dido and Raymond. But time comes again when she will follow into the same situation her mother was in and this time will time repeat itself. Is love a sin when one's feelings are true as she shows the townspeople and people around her that she is not cursed with this life and that life has no meaning without love?
After five years in showbiz, Jessy Mendiola is now in the line of one Kapamilya Drama Princesses who are now all full-fledged drama heroines. After Mendiola's participation in the hit teleserye Kung Tayo'y Magkakalayo, she was given the primetime soap Sabel, based on the 1981 classic movie Bata Pa Si Sabel—which starred award-winning film and television icons Snooky Serna and Albert Martinez, under Regal Films—and like many classic films under Regal Entertainment that were classics such as Underage, which was used as a Your Song Saturday presentation. Sabel was the last teleserye of AJ Perez before his death on April 17, 2011 from a Dagupan show and was riding a van on his way home with his family.
