Berta Zemel

The tomboyish, outgoing Julieta is the daughter of a member of the Palmeiras soccer club board. She is constantly frustrated by what she sees as institutional bias against women in soccer. One day while watching her beloved Palmeiras, she is struck by a handsome man, Romeu, that she sees rooting for the Palmeiras' chief rivals, the Corinthians. After meeting the same man again in the middle of eye exam, Julieta and Romeu quickly become a couple. However, in order to avoid incurring the wrath of her parents, Romeu is forced to pretend to be an adoring Palmeiras fan, an increasingly difficult task for the die-hard Corinthiano.

Alice, married for the last 20 years to a taxi driver, works in a beauty parlour, has three children, the eldest of whom is doing his military service, and a mother who works as a maid in her house. None of the three siblings pay much attention to their mother, and they treat their grandmother with lack of respect. Alice's life in the female working world contrasts strongly with the powerful masculine presence in her home. Although she's a good girl, the chance to betray uncovers other betrayals she didn't know existed.

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The story of Orisbela, a young and religious woman who comes from Portugal to Brazil to marry Francisco de Albuquerque, a rude sugar-cane plantation owner, in 1570.

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The body of a dead transgender woman is being prepared by others trans people for the burial. Later it is delivered to the original family, that decides to bury her as a man. A trans person cortege moves toward the wake to reclaim the deceased’s built identity.

After the inauguration of a crematorium in the city, a widowed matriarch imposes her last wish on her children who, despite trying hard to fulfill their mother's request, face several obstacles and paradigms linked to family rituals.

Memories of Maura tells the story of a familiar relationship seen by the point of view of Alice, an eight years old girl, that had to move with her parents to her grandma's house Maura, that suffers with a degenerative disease. In this context Alice will have to deal with this new reality.

Threshold narrates a story of love and mystery which takes place in an old house inhabited by the young Maria, whose fame as a saint extends well beyond the mountains of the interior of Brazil. The arrival of two new characters has a disturbing affect on Maria: a traveler, for whom "Holy Maria" develops an intense passion, and Aunt Emiliana, an elderly lady determined to prepare for the great miracle.

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After a period of study in Europe, Danielle arrives in Bento Gonçalves, Rio Grande do Sul, to teach gastronomy classes. Among her students is the clumsy Luca. As sour as a lemon, the young woman quickly clashes with the sweet-as-honey boy – so sweet it's almost cloying. Days later, the two attend the grape harvest festival. And the attraction, disguised as animosity – amidst the flour fight and pie-in-the-face – blossoms into romance. What Dani doesn't realize is that Luca is a descendant of the Bellini family, an Italian family who established the Mamma Mia Pizzeria in the same alley where the Cassoulet family, the young woman's clan, opened the Bistro Paris. The matriarchs Maria and Françoise were inseparable friends in childhood, but a love rivalry turned them into enemies, making their restaurants the stage for this amusing rivalry.

Malhação is a Brazilian television series for the teenage audience. The soap started in 1995, and was set in a fictional Gym Club called Malhação on Barra da Tijuca, Rio de Janeiro. Through the years the location varied slightly. Although the name of the soap remains the same, it is now set in the Múltipla Escolha High School.