

180 episodes of suffering, class warfare, and the world's worst voicemail.

Season 1 • Episode 180
LatestLeonor and Pedro, are young, in love and from different social classes. She is the daughter of a wealthy man. He is from a modest working class family. They experience an intense but dramatically short love affair. When Pedro discovers Leonor’s father’s secret – that he sexually abused a maid – he is the victim of a hit and run accident, leaving him in a deep coma for 5 years. He later awakens to find out that his girlfriend, who was told he had died in the accident, moved on with her life and married someone else, after several years of grieving.
Acting
Ricardo Pereira sells five years of coma with pure face acting.
Writing
Plot twists that would make Dickens say 'calm down.'
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Portuguese telenovelas dominated prime time for decades; this aired on TVI, the network that perfected the 'class-crossed lovers' template.
Sandra Barata Belo and Ricardo Pereira became real-life partners during filming — method acting taken to its logical extreme.