Season 1 • Episode 1
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El Deseo is a small town that has healing hot springs, but also a swamp that everyone prefers to avoid. As in any small town there are passions, secrets and mysteries. Its inhabitants revolve around the Spa and the hotel owned by Dalmiro Bernal and his wife Mercedes. Due to various circumstances, Carmen and Javier arrive at the town. Carmen is a variety artist without much luck in her work who hopes to make money to emigrate. Javier goes to fulfill a job and leave. But The Wish holds them back. They both stay and their lives change forever.
Acting
Natalia Oreiro carries every scene with wounded-dreamer magnetism.
Production
The spa-as-character aesthetic — humid, claustrophobic, gorgeous.
Creator
Marcos Gorban
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
El Deseo captures Argentina's 2000s telenovela golden age, when networks bet big on single-location mysteries with cinematic ambition.
Natalia Oreiro was already a regional superstar; this role let her play against type as a failure, not a glamour icon.
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