Mara Carvalho

In the underworld of the city of São Paulo, there is a real business that is making money for a lot of people: fights. The small wrestling clubs attract many rich men who want to bet their fortunes on illegal disputes between poor men, who have to fight to survive and earn a few bucks.

After a chance encounter on the elevator, the lives of Mary Ann, a widowed English teacher, and Pedro, a recently divorced man, intersect against the hot backdrop of Rio de Janeiro.

A mother struggles trying to avoid her son of becoming insane like his deceased father, but maybe it's already too late.

Xavier, a pharmacist, lives peacefully in bigamy with his two women, Carmen and Beatriz, but the harmony breaks down when they find he has another lover, Monique, a nightclub dancer.

Paulo is a middle-class playboy who reluctantly gets involved in a terrorist conspiracy and ends up exiled with the engaged Letícia in an embassy, after a guerrilla camp is discovered by the police and two of them, Sócrates and Mário, fall into shrapnells. Luís and Márcia, a rich couple, spend their time looking for different emotions. They get smet with a couple of lesbians, Márcia flirts with one of them, provoking the jealousy of the other, Susana.

In the struggle for land a vicious feud erupts between two men, who commit their families to a war without truce. Over two generations they are moved by love and by hatred in this epic saga of love for the land.

Jose Inocencio had innocence only as part of his name, but only those who new him well could notice this. But nobody knew him. He was a storyteller, and he was always the main character in the stories he told. He managed not only to create stories about himself, he managed to create a legend. The story of this powerful cacao farmer; Maria Santa, the beloved wife who died; and their four children is the main theme of 'Renascer'.

The soap opera's central theme is life after death, inspired by the philosophy of Allan Kardec, the codifier of Spiritism. The character who drives the plot is Alexandre, a delinquent who kills himself in prison after being convicted of robbery followed by homicide and goes on to torment the lives of all those he considers responsible for his tragic fate.

Farmer Selena is a strong-willed young woman who won't rest until she uncovers a secret kept by her mother Camila: the identity of her father.

The main plot revolves around a hidden treasure. The story begins when a gang steals ten million dollars worth of diamonds in Uruguay. To escape the police, one of the thieves, Rodolfo Torres de Almeida, flees to Argentina. His partner, Ivo Simeone, travels to São Paulo with the jewels. Ivo decides to hide the precious stones and, to ensure he doesn't forget the hiding place, has a map tattooed above the buttocks of a girl, the daughter of his neighbor. The thief takes care to photograph the girl so he can identify her in the future. Ivo is arrested and, eight years later, when he gets out of jail, he is run over and killed. Before dying, however, he manages to tell his son Rodrigo the secret about the treasure map. The young man follows the clues given by his father and discovers that the young woman with the tattooed map is Elisa, a novice nun cloistered in a convent, about to take perpetual vows.