Like a previous poster - I was happy enough to watch this until about episode seven - when out of the blue a gay storyline was shoe horned in for the sake of political correctness - I assume - or maybe to use sex as a lure for more viewers.
To begin - Don Ramon - a wealthy land owner - travels hundreds of miles to find a wife for his nephew Manuel - who is a hopeless drunkard following the disappearance of his wife, Llanos.
He decides on Mary - the youngest girl - her mother is quite prepared to sell her even though she is only fifteen - there are three adults in that house - none of them working - so this is unforgivable. Maria is accepted in her place.
There is a woman at the house Justa - who is in. Love with Manuel - and whilst posing as Maria's friend does everything in her power to break them up.
There is a mystery regarding Llano which is cleared up in the most simple and implausible fashion.
This is the basis of the story.
Just when they are beginning to connect, Maria's old lover turns up - Jose - this actor just grins and grins to a noticeable and annoying degree. That Manuel trusts him in business matters knowing who he is and what he is trying to do is ridiculous.
The series doesn't seem to know in what timeline it is set - they dance the twist - early sixties - they wear bright middle sixties fashions - and then they wear seventies flares and wide collars.
Suddenly the youngest girl is an actress - no explanation of how a girl from a tiny village who is penniless achieved that. The brother Guillermo is "special" - and here comes the unbelievable section of the story which exists purely to titillate. He is bullied then seduced by a worker in the factory who is engaged to a woman.
As usual contrived situations drive the plot forward and the worst villains are rehabbed by the end of it.
Not something I would watch again.
To begin - Don Ramon - a wealthy land owner - travels hundreds of miles to find a wife for his nephew Manuel - who is a hopeless drunkard following the disappearance of his wife, Llanos.
He decides on Mary - the youngest girl - her mother is quite prepared to sell her even though she is only fifteen - there are three adults in that house - none of them working - so this is unforgivable. Maria is accepted in her place.
There is a woman at the house Justa - who is in. Love with Manuel - and whilst posing as Maria's friend does everything in her power to break them up.
There is a mystery regarding Llano which is cleared up in the most simple and implausible fashion.
This is the basis of the story.
Just when they are beginning to connect, Maria's old lover turns up - Jose - this actor just grins and grins to a noticeable and annoying degree. That Manuel trusts him in business matters knowing who he is and what he is trying to do is ridiculous.
The series doesn't seem to know in what timeline it is set - they dance the twist - early sixties - they wear bright middle sixties fashions - and then they wear seventies flares and wide collars.
Suddenly the youngest girl is an actress - no explanation of how a girl from a tiny village who is penniless achieved that. The brother Guillermo is "special" - and here comes the unbelievable section of the story which exists purely to titillate. He is bullied then seduced by a worker in the factory who is engaged to a woman.
As usual contrived situations drive the plot forward and the worst villains are rehabbed by the end of it.
Not something I would watch again.