Unhappy in her marriage, Rachel decides to separate from her husband, the businessman Virgílio. Determined to turn her life around, she moves from Petrópolis to the southern zone of Rio de Janeiro with her daughter, Clara, and goes to live in her mother Laura's house in Ipanema. There she falls in love with the charming, but gruff, Heitor, owner of a mechanic shop. He lives with his sister, Irene, in an old townhouse, one of the main settings of the telenovela.
Jardel Filho
Irene Ravache
Tony Ramos
Débora Bloch
Beatriz Segall
Gianfrancesco Guarnieri
Yara Amaral
Cecil Thiré
Paulo Figueiredo
Carla Camurati
Mário Gomes
Miguel Falabella
Isabel Ribeiro
Helber Rangel
Beatriz Lyra
Tânia Scher
Nelson Xavier
Camila Amado
Carlos Kroeber
Ísis de Oliveira
Márcia Rodrigues
Ivan Mesquita
Mônica Torres
Edson Silva
Gésio Amadeu
Maria Alves
Duse Nacaratti
Tereza Mascarenhas
Monique Curi
Oberdan Júnior
Jorge Botelho
Ana Maria Sagres
Alcione Mazzeo
Camilo Bevilacqua
Cléa Simões
Ibanez Filho
Isabela Garcia
José Antonio Prata
Marcos Wainberg
Noira Mello
Norma Geraldy
Paulo Pinheiro
Zelia Toledo
Maria Helena Pader
Manoel Eliziário
Marise Cigani
Nelson Wagner