Éramos Seis (2019 TV series)


Éramos Seis is a Brazilian telenovela produced and broadcast by Rede Globo. It premiered on 30 September 2019, replacing Órfãos da Terra, and ended on 27 March 2020. It is based on the book of the same name written by Maria José Dupré. The series is adapted by Ângela Chaves, with the collaboration of Bernardo Guilherme, Daisy Chaves and Juliana Peres.
It stars Glória Pires, Nicolas Prattes, Danilo Mesquita, Giullia Buscacio, André Luiz Frambach, Simone Spoladore, Ricardo Pereira and Cássio Gabus Mendes in the main roles.

Plot

The story tells the life of a middle-class family from São Paulo between the 1920s and 1940s. Lola is a kind woman dedicated to her family, is married to Júlio, who aspires to be rich and was indebted to finance a house on Avenida Angélica, in São Paulo; they have four children together. The studious Carlos is the pride of the family, but has a troubled romance with Inês, whose mother is against the relationship. Alfredo lives in conflict with his parents for his rebellious and riotous way, in addition to hating his older brother out of jealousy. The spoiled Isabel shocks everyone when she gets involved with Felício, a much older man. Julinho dates Lili, but aims to rise socially, seeing this opportunity in the romance with Soraia, daughter of the rich Assad, his father's boss. After her husband's premature death, Lola starts selling homemade sweets to support her family.
Lola's paternal aunt, Emília, is a bitter and millionaire widow who has never helped her family and lives taking care of her daughter, Justina, who has mental problems and cannot leave the house for this reason. Emilia sent her younger daughter, Adelaide, to Switzerland as a child, but she returns as an adult and conflicts with her mother over feminist ideas and the insistence that her sister should not be deprived of social life, in addition to being sexually open-minded and gets involved with her cousin Alfredo. The rest of Lola's family lives in Itapetininga: her mother Maria, maternal aunt Candoca and sisters Clotilde and Olga. Clotilde lives unhappily away from Almeida, with whom she broke up after discovering that he was divorced, for fear of judgment, although she hopes to take the courage to live love. Olga dreamed of becoming a member of high society, but she decided to marry her great love, Zeca, even though he is a humble pharmacist, articulating for her aunt Emília to hire him to take care of her business, thus being well paid and giving herself a good life.
Shirley has always believed that she was abandoned while pregnant in her teens by João Aranha, unaware that everything was a plan by his mother, and when she reunites with him more than ten years later, she discovers the truth. However, she is already married to Afonso, who cares for their daughter, Inês, causing her to be torn between the love of the two, since Aranha starts to show himself as a possessive and different man from youth. Lola's best friend is the gossip Genu, married to the submissive Virgulino, with whom she has two children: Lili and Lúcio, in love with Isabel.

Cast