Las Malcriadas (English: Bad Maids)[3] is a Mexican telenovela produced and directed by Joshua Mintz for TV Azteca.

[4] It is an original story by Ximena Escalante and written by César Sierra and Carlos Madrid and directed by Mintz, Moisés Urquidi and Raúl Caballero.

[8][2] The series follows the story of Laura (Sara Maldonado), a young journalist who suffers the loss of her mother and cleaning her personal belongings, discovers evidence that leads her to assume that her biological mother was another woman.

Full of sadness for the death of her adoptive mother and with anger towards her family for having lied to her, Laura makes the most difficult decision of her life and decides to look for information that leads her to find the whereabouts of the woman who gave her life.

Later, Laura and these women will be identified by the press and society as Las Malcriadas, as they are accused of some crimes.