Laços de Família (English: Family Ties)[1] is a Brazilian telenovela produced and aired by TV Globo from 5 June 2000 to 3 February 2001.

With a total of 209 episodes, it was created by Manoel Carlos and written by him with Maria Carolina, Vinícius Vianna, Flávia Lins e Silva and Fausto Galvão, and directed by Moacyr Góes, Leandro Neri, Ricardo Waddington, Rogério Gomes and Marcos Schechtman.

It stars Vera Fischer, Carolina Dieckmann, Reynaldo Gianecchini, Marieta Severo, José Mayer, Tony Ramos, Deborah Secco, and Lília Cabral.

She is involved in a car accident with Edu, a 25-year-old doctor who had just graduated, in front of the bookstore owned by Miguel, on the eve of New Year 2000.

Paulo, the elder sibling, suffers from a severe neurological disability due to a car crash that killed his mother.

Being unable to have children, Alma takes care of Edu and his sister Estella as her own, often interfering heavily in the personal lives of the siblings.

Danilo is portrayed as a bon vivant and quite a womanizer, repeatedly attempting to seduce Rita, the housemaid.

The farms owned are attended to by Pedro, an arrogant, tough and nasty womanizer who has a passion for horses.

His wife is Clara, a rich girl who married young and cannot adapt to a life of financial difficulties.

Iris moves to Rio de Janeiro to live with Helena after the death of her mother, shot in a gas station while trying to save her daughter of by a thief.

A turning point occurs when Camila becomes pregnant with Edu's child, while Miguel is on the verge of proposing to Helena.

She enjoyed sexual intercourse with Pedro when both were young and as a consequence, was expelled from her father Aléssio's house in the countryside.

Capitu, with her salary, supports her parents Pasqual, a retired intellectual who works as a book reviewer for Miguel, and Ema, a housewife and seamstress.

But before that, she is stuck a living hell, as Orlando, a former customer, is obsessed with her, and is trying to get her back into a life of prostitution by constantly harassing her.

The telenovela's soundtrack gained popular and critical acclaim for its blend of Brazilian Bossa Nova classics and contemporary English language pop and country music.