[1] The work recounts the meteoric rise of Miranda, comes to her problems with stimulants, sleeping pills, alcohol, and deals with the intimacy of sexual relations of the star.

The films featuring the singer are usually associated with "the Good Neighbor Policy" cultural outreach strategy (for commercial purposes) US with Latin America devised by Nelson Rockefeller and supported by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Furthermore, issues in the Brazilian courts have delayed the project (producer Paula Lavigne bought in 1998 Carmen's image rights for $200,000, to make a movie about her life.

)[6][7][8] The idea of the miniseries was director Carlos Manga, which invited the writer Maria Adelaide Amaral to take the script the plot.

[9][10][11] On 27 December 2015, the Folha de S.Paulo newspaper announced that in 2016 the network has plans to resume negotiations with Carmen Miranda's family to get permission to bring his story to TV.