After a young woman gives birth to twins and dies precociously, her cold-hearted mother keeps her grandson but rejects his sister with Down syndrome, who is adopted by their sweet-hearted surgeon.
As her character Antonia, Sônia Braga was in fact in New York in 9/11/2001. Braga woke up when the plane that hit the North Tower flew right over her building, and witnessed the second collision. Leandra Leal (Sabrina) was also at New York on this day with her mother Ângela Leal.
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