Leandro is a sommelier with a penchant for women and fine wine. After seducing his boss’s wife, he is taken by surprise by the true love he feels for the married couple’s daughter, Antônia, which makes him doubt his convictions and plunge madly into a torrent of passion. When Jaime becomes aware of his wife’s infidelity, his fury coincides with the disappearance of the sommelier. Was it a planned escape or a crime of passion? The uncertainty only increases the suspense in this explosive mixture of action, romance and mystery.
The starting point is the approach of the architect Clara, mother of Carol and Léo, and the engineer Miguel, recently separated and very close to his daughter Júlia. In addition to her children, Clara lives with her ex-husbands Fred and Paulo, her ex-stepdaughter Bia, her sister Nanda and her maid and nanny Salete. In Miguel's universe, in addition to his daughter, there are ex-wife Ruth, partner and brother-in-law Otávio and sister Lorena. Clara and Miguel will also have to live with the personal dramas of clients Teodoro and Ingrid: he has four children from previous relationships and no desire to become a father again; and she years younger and determined to have her first child.
Twelve people are confined together in an abandoned maximum security prison in the middle of the Amazon forest, and end up having to fight for their lives against unknown creatures and supernatural odds.
Inspired by film noir and North American pulp fiction from the 1930s and 1940s, “Forbidden City” follows the adventures of a former police officer turned private eye. Specialized in adultery cases, the detective employs his power of seduction and ends up mixing his personal and professional lives, getting involved in complex plots that might be a threat to his own life.
Florípedes, Dona Flor, a cooking teacher, loses her husband Vadinho, an incorrigible trickster, on Carnival Sunday. In deep mourning, tearful, she recalls the ups and downs of that relationship. But, as she is still young and beautiful, she attracts the attention of the very correct pharmacist Teodoro, with whom she marries.