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produced by Carlos Moreno for

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. It premiered on August 22, 2016. A total of 50 episodes have been confirmed so far. The main protagonists are portrayed by

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and

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portray the main antagonists, with

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Plot

In the rich coastal town of Encino Blanco, three married couples spend the weekend at Coral Beach while their husbands go on their already traditional fishing trip on a yacht. Not far from the pier, the yacht suddenly explodes. Only chips remain on the surface. In seconds they lost their husbands, and they have to go on with their lives without them ... just as they planned. Vanessa, Jackie and Katia have had very comfortable lives and their marriages before the others are almost perfect, but in reality the women are extremely unhappy because of their husbands. Julio, Vanessa's husband, has gotten into shady deals that endanger the lives of Vanessa and Diego, his nine-year-old son. Jackie's husband, Lorenzo, is controlling, and humiliates and beats her without allowing her to have a life of her own. Nicolás, Katia's husband, has been in depression for years, with several suicide attempts, breaking his wife's dreams of having a family. After the "accident", the widows, who were thought to have a normal, quiet lives find their lives transformed into a whirlwind of emotions and imbalance, as the police discover a bomb caused the yacht explosion. Now the police must find the culprit. The three women get into a world in which their lives are always in danger and where the economic interests of laboratories harass them.

Cast

Main

as Vanessa Leal *

as Jackie Acosta *

as Katia Millán *

as Bruno Borgetti *

as Patricio Bernal *

as Julio Zamora *

Leticia Calderón Leticia Calderón (; born Carmen Leticia Calderón León on July 15, 1968) is a Mexican actress.

as Irene Palazuelos

Secondary

Bruno Bichir Bruno Bichir Nájera (born 6 October 1967) is a Mexican actor and one of the members of the Bichir family. Biography Bichir was born in Mexico City. He started his acting career at the age of five in several theater, film and television series. ...

as Zacarías Zaldívar *

Marcelo Córdoba Marcelo Alejandro Córdoba (born Marcelo Alejandro Córdoba in Buenos Aires, Argentina on November 21, 1973) is an Argentine actor. Biography After a few years of living in México, he was in the cast of the 2005 telenovela Alborada, which w ...

as Eddy Quijano *

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as Nicolás Lombardo *

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as Lorenzo Rivera *

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as Rita Kuri *

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as José Rivera *

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as Enríquez *

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as Isabella de Zamora *

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as Catalina de Lombardo * Diego Escalona as Diego Zamora *

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as Arturo *

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as Sandro *

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as Giovanna * Isabella Camil as Miriam del Villar *

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as Lascurain * Lupita Lara as Tania * Juan Ángel Esparza as Víctor Martínez * Iván Caraza as Esteban * Paola Real as Danna Quijano

Recurring

* Adanely Núñez as Rebeca * Arlette Pacheco as Elisa * Ricardo Franco as Rico * Jonathan Kuri as Alberto Ramos * Sandra Kai as Ximena * Jony Hernández as Ramírez *

Juan Alejandro Ávila Juan Alejandro Ávila (born as Juan Alejandro Ávila González on March 29, 1973, in Mexico City) is a Mexican– American actor. He is known for playing several roles in series and telenovelas of Televisa and Telemundo. Since 2010 he has partici ...

as Duarte * Michel Gregorio

Series overview

Episodes

Season 1

Season 2

Awards and nominations

References

{{Televisa telenovelas 2010s Televisa telenovelas 2016 telenovelas 2016 Mexican television series debuts 2016 Mexican television series endings Mexican television series based on non-Mexican television series Spanish-language telenovelas