Malhação is a Brazilian television series for the teenage audience. The soap started in 1995, and was set in a fictional Gym Club called Malhação on Barra da Tijuca, Rio de Janeiro. Through the years the location varied slightly. Although the name of the soap remains the same, it is now set in the Múltipla Escolha High School.

When she was a young girl, Heloisa was harshly torn apart from the love of her life: Pedro, a straightforward romantic young man whose powerful family strongly believes the ends always do justify the means. Because she comes from a very humble background, Pedro's parents set up all kinds of intrigues in order to prevent the couple from fulfilling their seemingly predestined love story. Twenty years later, all it takes is a casual encounter to spark that feeling again and have them fighting against not only Pedro's family tricks, but also Heloisa's mighty and unscrupulous husband.

The adventures of a couple, Karin and Agnaldo, who discovers an hour for one that does not know why still together after so many years. But for some reason, they can not leave behind the life together. With relationship to the brink of collapse, the separation is spreading. The professional life of the couple is "contaminated". Elementary school teacher, Karin takes its crisis to work. Agnaldo, who is employed by an insurance broker also gets out anywhere. The two no longer make the most unceremoniously and always generate the most climão in front of anyone. The head of Karin, Cinira who has been married three times, is also a kind of sentimental counselor. Even more problematic, instead of helping, therefore contributes to total chaos. Friends also can not escape the "spirit" of the impending separation. Gilda and Delgado are in love, but the romance of the two hardly overshadows the couple's scandals.

Donatela and Flora, two friends who became rivals. One of them committed a homicide and pretends to be innocent. There are two versions for the same story. Who, after all, is telling the truth? Donatela or Flora?

Força de um Desejo is a Brazilian telenovela produced by Globo TV and was shown in the schedule of 18 hours between May 10, 1999 and January 29, 2000, in 226 chapters. It was written by Gilberto Braga and as collaborators with Alcides Nogueira Marques, Lilian Garcia, Eliane Garcia, Philip Miguez and Mark Silver and directed by Mauro Mendonça Filho, Carlos Araújo, Fabricio Mamberti and João Camargo, with production of the core Marcos Paulo. Featured Malu Mader, Fábio Assunção, Cláudia Abreu, Marcelo Serrado, Selton Mello, Nathália Timberg, Lavínia Vlasak, Isabel Fillardis and Denise Del Vecchio in leading roles.