Salsa e Merengue

Synopsis

The elegant and wealthy Bárbara gives birth to a stillborn child, but never receives the bad news. Her husband, Guilherme, swaps the child's body for that of a baby whose mother is very poor and unable to raise him. Thirty years later, Eugênio, the swapped boy, suffers mercury poisoning, develops leukemia, and needs an urgent bone marrow transplant. But the surgery can only be performed with a donation from a blood relative. Faced with the risk of his son's death, Guilherme tells Bárbara the truth. With everything clarified, the two go in search of Anabel Muñoz, the boy's real mother and the only one who can save his life. Anabel kept her pregnancy a secret, but never forgot the child she had with the unscrupulous Urbano. She is the widow of the Cuban Félix Muñoz and has five other children: Valentim, Remédios, Amparo, Assunção, and Antônio.

Cast

Patrícia França

Madalena Sobral

Marcos Palmeira

Valentim Muñoz

Marcello Antony

Eugênio Amarante Paes

Débora Bloch

Teodora Bentes do Gama

Cristiana Oliveira

Adriana Campos Queiroz

Arlete Salles

Anabel Muñoz

Rosamaria Murtinho

Bárbara Amarante Paes

Victor Fasano

Heitor Lobato

Laura Cardoso

Ruth Campos Queiroz

Zezé Polessa

Marinelza Bolla

Ariclê Perez

Gilda Campos Queiroz

Diogo Vilela

Caio Graco Leão

Bia Nunnes

Remédios Muñoz

Thaís de Campos

Amparo Muñoz

Oswaldo Loureiro

Walmir Bolla

Walmor Chagas

Guilherme Amarante Paes

Cláudio Cavalcanti

Dr. Olavo

Gabriela Alves

Assunção Muñoz

Maria Maya

Caroline Bolla (Kelly)

Juliana Baroni

Inês Soares da Cunha

Crew

Costume & Make-Up

• Marilia Carneiro Costume Design

Directing

• Wolf Maya Director
• Maurício Farias Director
• Cininha de Paula Director
• Luciano Sabino Director
• Ignácio Coqueiro Director

Sound

• Ricky Martin Theme Song Performance

Writing

• Jane Santos Writer
• Gilberto Braga Writers' Assistant

Seasons & episodes