Plot
In the early 1980s, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Jade (Giovanna Antonelli), a young Muslim girl is orphaned when her mother dies and has to go to Morocco where her uncle Alí lives. The problem is that Jade was living in a country with a culture very different from Islam, that taught her to put her religion aside. But once she arrives in Morocco, she must learn the way of her Islamic religion, adjust to her new way of living, and face all the punishments she will be exposed to because of her conflicting personality and actions that go against her religion.
Back in Rio, a well-positioned family, the Ferraz, go to vacation in Morocco. Twin brothers Lucas and Diogo Ferraz (Murilo Benício), along with Leônidas (Reginaldo Faria) their father, and doctor Augusto Albieri (Juca de Oliveira), friend of the family and genetics scientist visit Alí, a friend of Albieri's. There, Lucas and Jade meet for the first time, and they fall in love at first sight. Jade, knowing it's haraam (a sin) to love Lucas, decides to put her love first, despite her religious beliefs; also, despite knowing that she will be forced to marry a stranger, Jade makes plans to run away with Lucas, but he has problems of his own. In Rio, Diogo has an accident with his helicopter and dies. Both Lucas and Leônidas are devastated by the news and Lucas' plans of running away with Jade get ruined. But who is most devastated with Diogo's death is Albieri, his godparent.
He and Diogo were so close that he decided to (with a cell of Lucas) make the very first human clone. Deusa (Adriana Lessa), a low-middle class woman who has not been able to get pregnant, was inseminated with Lucas' clone, and gave birth to a baby, not knowing that it was a clone. Léo is born without complications, but Albieri wants to stay close to Léo and watch him grow, causing Léo to become fascinated with the doctor, leaving Deusa very angry. The story comes to present, with Jade married to Saíd (Dalton Vigh) and mother of a little child, Khadija (Carla Diaz). She lives happily with her new family and is even starting to care about Saíd. However, due to Said's insecurities a new encounter with Lucas is forced upon her to test Jade's love for him, with this encounter the old passion revives, but they're not the young lovers they once were and now they have new lives and new responsibilities. Lucas, who also is married, to Maysa (Daniela Escobar) and with a daughter, Mel (Débora Falabella) doesn't know he had been cloned 20 years before. Albieri had kept this a secret from everybody's knowledge and is trying to make it so that Léo and Lucas never meet and thus find out the truth. The last thing Albieri knew from Léo is that he and Deusa went to the north of Brazil, but with the return of both, Léo has become a young, handsome man, and the living image of the young Lucas whom Jade met in Morocco. The appearance of Leo in Brazil and his later travels to Morocco will change the life of all the characters forever.
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