Amor de Mãe


Amor de Mãe is a Brazilian telenovela produced and broadcast by Rede Globo. It premiered on 25 November 2019, replacing A Dona do Pedaço. The series is written by Manuela Dias, with the collaboration of Mariana Mesquita, Roberto Vitorino and Walter Daguerre.
It stars Regina Casé, Adriana Esteves and Taís Araújo as three woman from different social classes who live the dilemmas as mothers. Isis Valverde, Humberto Carrão, Chay Suede, Irandhir Santos, Juliano Cazarré, Arieta Corrêa, Vladimir Brichta and Murilo Benício also star in main roles.
As from March 2020, the telenovela went on an indefinite hiatus after production was shut down due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil. As of 21 March 2020, 102 episodes of Amor de Mãe have aired.

Plot

Lurdes, Vitória and Thelma are three women from different social classes that live their dilemmas as mothers. Lurdes is a struggling woman who had four children: Magno, Ryan, Érica, and Domênico, who was sold at the age of 2 by her ex-husband to child trafficker Kátia. Knowing that Domênico was sent to Rio de Janeiro, Lurdes decides to go look for him with the rest of her children and, on the way, she finds the orphan Camila, whom she decides to raise. Vitória is a 45-year-old lawyer who has been unable to get pregnant, so she decides to adopt a child. While waiting for her adopted son to arrive, she meets Davi. Vitória spends the night with him and is surprised to discover that she is pregnant. Thelma has been a widow for more than 20 years and is overprotective of her son Danilo. When Danilo was a child he survived a fire that killed his father, thanks to his mother who saved him. Thelma's life changes when she discovers that she has an incurable brain aneurysm. She decides to make a list of things she wants to do before passing away, but all the wishes on her list involve Danilo, who does not know about the disease and wants to have distance from his mother because he feels suffocated. Throughout the story, the three women will discover a bond that will connect their lives forever.

Cast

Manuela Dias delivered the synopsis of the plot in the first semester of 2017, and on 19 June of that year the project was approved to enter the queue of 9pm telenovelas for 2019. Originally the plot would be called Troia, in reference to the mythological city, but the name was changed to Amor de Mãe to better express the central plot around the three mothers. Filming of the telenovela began in August 2019. Amor de Mãe was the first production to be filmed in Globo's newly opened MG4 studios. On 16 March 2020, it was announced that filming of the telenovela was suspended indefinitely due to the COVID-19 pandemic; the final episode of the first part would air on 21 March 2020. Reruns of previous telenovelas currently occupy its timeslot.

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