Laços de Sangue

Laços de Sangue (lit. Blood Ties) is a Portuguese telenovela which broadcast on SIC from September 2010 to October 2011. It is a co-production between SIC and Brazilian Rede Globo. The show also broadcast in several Latin American countries, including Uruguay, Brazil, Bolivia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, Dominican Republic, Costa Rica, and Nicaragua. In May 2014, Laços de Sangue began broadcasting in Angola on TV Zimbo and in Italy on Rai 1 where it is titled Legami.^[1] It won the 2011 Emmy for Best Telenovela.^[2]

Plot

In 1984, two sisters, Inês and Marta, fall into the strong currents of a river while fighting each other over a doll. Their father manages to save Inês, the oldest of the two, but Marta is nowhere to be found and is presumed dead. Their mother, pregnant of a boy, witnesses everything, and grieves the death of her husband (who died rescuing his daughters), and supposedly, of her youngest daughter.

In the current day, Inês is a strong, kind person, who owns the M restaurant with her mother. She's in love with João, a doctor that constantly volunteers to partake in humanitarian causes. When he returns from one of those campaigns in the Amazon, he realizes how much he truly loves Inês, and proposes to her, to which she says yes. However, their happyness is ruined by multiple tragedies going on in their lives, such as João's grandfather suffering a stroke and, during their wedding announcement dinner, João's sister being fatally shot in the sequence of a robbery. Meanwhile, Marta, Inês' missing and presumed dead sister, lives her life as Diana, a pretty but power-hungry lady that pities her vulgar life. After the accident with her and Inês, - whose resulting shock made her lose her memory about her past - she was found, adopted by a new family, whom, moments before finding her, had been mourning their own dead child. Diana doesn't know anything about her real family, until she hears a conversation between her adoptive parents that reveals the secret. She then remembers everything, and searches for her biological family, which she eventually finds and swears one thing: revenge. Particularly on Inês, whom she promises that she'll take everything away from her (from her material goods, to her own boyfriend João) and live the life that she believes her sister stole from her.

Cast

• Diana Chaves as Inês
• Diogo Morgado as João
• Joana Santos as Diana/Marta

References

External links

• Official website (Portuguese)
• Laços de Sangue at the Internet Movie Database