Laços de Sangue

Laços de Sangue
Genre	Telenovela
Directed by	Bruno José and Patrícia Sequeira
Starring	Diana Chaves, Diogo Morgado, Joana Santos
Country of origin	Portugal
Original language(s)	Portuguese
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	322
Production
Producer(s)	SP Televisão SIC Rede Globo
Running time	60 minutes
Release
Original network	SIC
Original release	September 13, 2010 – October 2, 2011
Chronology
Preceded by	Perfeito Coração
Followed by	Rosa Fogo
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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. It won the 2011 Emmy for Best Telenovela.

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 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 his youngest daughter.

In the current day, Inês is a strong, kind person, who owns the M restaurant in society with his 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 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 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 families. Which she eventually finds, and swears one thing on: revenge. Particularly on Inês, whom she promises that she'll take everything away from (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

External links

• Official website (Portuguese)
• Laços de Sangue at IMDb