Valsts: Kolumbija/ASV
Gads: 2002
Sēriju skaits: 127
Dziesma: Carlos Ponce - "La Venganza"
Sižets:
On the wedding day of Luis Miguel Ariza and Elena Fontana, a sick woman in her forties and daughter of one of the two mob bosses in the Caribbean town of Matamoros, she realizes that he is involved with her sister Grazzia, Elena's heart cannot take this and she dies. The same night Valentina Diaz who is just a poor but brave woman and a boxer in illegal fights sponsored by the other mob boss: Fernando Valerugo. Valentina dies because of a huge impact on her head during the fight, so Elena mysteriously comes back to life into Valentina's body. Elena has to ask help of a medium friend of her Tobago who helps her to get her life back, but Valentina is still an employee for Fernando Valerugo, so Elena cannot stop boxing and she has to train very hard with Valentina's best friend and trainer Brenda Li just to last toe-to-toe against her opponents in every fight she participates in on behalf of Valerugo. Valentina goes to Fontana's manor as Elena's best friend and using all her knowledge about the Fontanas' family she easily gets the trust of Luis Miguel and Danilo Fontana.
Elena's plan is get even with Grazzia and Luis Miguel but soon she realizes the only responsible is her sister Grazzia, who now sees Valentina as a huge threat for her plans with Luis Miguel and the Fontanas. Grazzia plans to destroy her father by helping Fernando Valerugo so she becomes her lover. Helena while in Fontanas' Manor learns that the daughter she had more than twenty years ago with Fernando Valerugo's son Marco Tulio did not die when she was born, so she decides to find her daughter.
Valentina thinks that a young woman in Valerugo's Manor named Adoración is her daughter. Valentina's brother Paquito is in love with Adoración, but the suspicion that Adoración is the heir both Valerugos and Fontanas make her a target for Fernando's family, her wife Raquel and her son Alfredo. Raquel kidnaps Adoración in order to control the potential heir, but the truth is Adoración is daughter of Father Sebastian (Fernando's brother) so the priest release her daughter and Grazzia learns that Raquel is using her so she kills her. Then Luis Miguel that Fernando's goddaughter Giovanna might be Helena's daughter and in order to confuse the Fontanas Fernando allows them to believe she is Helena's daughter.
Valentina and Luis Miguel starts a romantic relationship, but Valentina's ex-boyfriend and Fernando Valerugo's brother-in-law makes things more complicated and Grazzia takes advantage of the fact she is pregnant with Fernando's baby to keep Luis Miguel with her. Grazzia makes a scheme to blame Valentina for poisoning her and causing a miscarriage, after this episode both Fontanas and Valerugos go after Valentina to kill her. Felipe hides Valentina making everybody believe she is dead, just to prepare her to get her place as the heir of the Fonatanas and the Valerugos. Grazzia convinces Fernando to kill Luis Miguel so she can gain the full rights over the Fontanas' wealth, Luis Miguel is left to die in a lake but Valentina gets to save him. Luis Miguel eventually escapes and he believes Valentina has cheated on him all the time, in the search of Luis Miguel, Valentina is caught by Grazzia who locks her in a basement with no food or water, and finally she orders to set the house in fire, Grazzia believes that Valentina is dead, but Valentina was taken out of the basement by Tobago's husband.
In the basement Elena (in Valentina's body) learns that Luis Miguel married her because he wanted to get back several properties that Danilo Fontana took away from his parents, and the body she owns now it is actually the body of her own daughter. Elena (Valentina) now wants to destroy all the people who made her miserable for so long, in spite of the fact she is pregnant with Luis Miguel's baby. Felipe gets several top secret documents that he uses to blackmail both Valerugos and Fontanas and he ask One Million Dollars to keep the secret. Felipe takes Valentina to Europe with Rosario and Concepcion (who already knows that Valentina is really Elena).
Aktieru sastāvs:
Gabriela Spanic - Valentina Valerugo Fontana/Valentina Díaz/Helena Fontana
José Ángel Llamas - Luís Miguel Ariza
Catherine Siachoque - Grazzia Fontana
María Elena Döehring - Helena Fontana
Jorge Cao - Fernando Valerugo
Natasha Klauss - Sandra Guzmán
Ana María Abello - Adoración Valerugo Domínguez
Orlando Miguel - Felipe Rangel
Bárbara Garofalo - Mariángel Ariza
Carlos Duplat - Danilo Fontana
Margalida Castro - Concepción Fernández
Marcela Carvajal - Raquel Rangel de Valerugo
Guillermo Galvez - Armando Serrano
Andrea Martinez - Valeria Fontana Valerugo
Luz Stella Luengas - Yolanda Díaz "Yaya"
Nury Flores - Tobago Christmas
Millie Ruperto - Bernardina Pérez "Brenda Lee"
Carlos Rodríguez - Miguel Valerugo Rangel
Vanessa Simon - Giovanna Alfieri
Sebastian Devia - Andres Valerugo
John Ceballos - Rosario Paricua
Andrea Llanez - Veronica Dominguez
Linda Martinez Acevedo - Monica Rangel
Pedro Rendón - Francisco Díaz "Pachuito"
Yury Pérez - Franky García
Víctor Rodríguez - Jovito Matute
Naren Daryanani - Alfredo Valerugo
Iveth Zamora - María Teresa "Mariaté" Carballo
Katalina Krueger - Gabriela Santos
Martha Mijares - María Teresa Hernández
Julio del Mar - Padre Sebastián Valerugo
Carlos Barbosa - Numa Pompeyo / Aurelio Santaela
Miguel Alfonso Murillo - Americio Montalva / Padre Cumbaya
Maria Margarita Giraldo - Matilda Gómez
Martha Picanes - Raquel Martínez
Germán Rojas - Leonardo Michelotto
Milena Arango - Selma
Germán Arias - Capitán García
Jackeline Aristizábal - Gladys
Yazmid Ayala - Aminta
Rosemary Bohórquez - Clara Noyo
Julio Correal - León
Julio Escallón - Cirilo Coromoto Domínguez
Claudio Fernández - Tramonti
Natalia Gutiérrez - Noemí
Felipe W. Hencker - Dr. Rodolfo Caicedo
Rebeca López - Juez
Maryluz Attorney - Amparo Cortosse
Olga Cecilia Mendoza - Olga
Orlando Patiño - Dr. Tortosa
Martha Lucía Pereiro - María Luisa Arciniegas
Antonio Puentes - Dr. Tablante
Daniel Arenas - Danilo Fontana (Joven)
Carlos Vicente Puentes - Ovidio
José Quiroga - Jairo Lecuna "El Indio"
Cecilia Ricardo - Leonora de Serrano
Raúl Santa - Teobaldo Carmona
Julio Sastoque - Sixto "El Gordo"
Laura Suárez - Ximena María Benavides de Ariza
Siguifredo Vega - Juez Montilla
Alexander Rodríguez - Leonardo Michelotto (joven)
Alejandro Tamayo - Enfermero en la clínica siquiátrica
Sebastián Boscan - Marco Tulio Valerugo
Fernando Corredor - Socio viejo en la empresa de Valentina
Jaime Rayo - Fabrizzio
Sandra Pérez - Lucia
Andrés Felipe Martínez - Oscar
Néstor Alfonso Rojas - José María 'El Limpiador