[1] This limited run melodrama, which starred Mauricio Ochmann and Sandra Echeverría,[2] deals with topics such as drug trafficking, cloning and Islam.

[3] Telemundo executive Mark Santana called El Clon "the most ambitious telenovela in the history of television".

[5] As part of the 2010 season, Telemundo aired the serial weeknights at 8pm/7c central, replacing Más Sabe el Diablo.

As part of the production deal, Globo agreed to embargo distribution of the original Portuguese version for five years.

Jade is a young woman of Arab descent, who has to live with her father's family in Morocco after the death of her mother.

Lucas is a man who lives among the luxuries from the success of Leonardo Ferrer, his father, owner of an exporting firm.

Lucas takes the place of his brother in both the company and the hand of his girlfriend Marisa, whom he married shortly after.

The story has a twist twenty years later: Lucas, replacing his brother, had a daughter with his girlfriend Marisa called Natalia, who is a proud product of both her parents and her grandfather for her academic excellence, but she feels she does not enjoy life more because she stays in her room alone, studying and amid all her troubles, was hired by her grandfather's chauffeur, ex-fighter, Alejandro, but Marisa does not allow her daughter to marry someone of lower class.

Jade has become a mother and had to keep Said to educate her daughter to the customs of their culture provides, but Said has a contract with the Ferrer business.

Escobar cannot regain Clara, and after several attempts, gives up, then Anita's friend Louise, seduces him, plays with him and tells him to get one that's worth.

Natalian enters rehab and as months pass, she succeeds, she continues to struggle daily with the help of Alejandro, his family and his godfather, Enrique.

Now recovered, along with Fernando, opened a clinic for drug addicts and put "Paula" which was the name of their drug-addicted friend who never saw again.

At the beach, she meets a man who made her laugh while she was sad and so began a love sincere and very strong with she was happy.