Pecados ajenos

Pecados ajenos (A Chance to Love, literally "Other people's sins") is a Spanish-language telenovela written by Eric Vonn and produced by the United States–based television network Telemundo.

Lorena Rojas and Mauricio Islas were paired together for the first time in this saga of love, marriage, betrayal, parenthood, friendship and passion.

It stars Lorena Rojas and Mauricio Islas; With the antagonistic participations of Sonya Smith, Catherine Siachoque, Ariel López Padilla, Lupita Ferrer and Sebastián Ligarde with the stellar performances of Alicia Plaza, Carlos Camacho, Mildred Quiroz, Chela Arias, Raúl Izaguirre, Maritza Rodríguez, Hannah Zea, Jencarlos Canela, Mariana Torres, Alonso Espeleta, Pablo Portillo, Roberto Plantier, Tali Duclaud and Ximena Duque.

The show dealt with topics such as homosexuality and homophobia in Hispanic culture, date rape and marital rape, drug addiction and alcoholism, domestic violence, prostitution, abortion, incest, the dangers of religious fanaticism, illegal immigration, mental disorders like schizophrenia and multiple personality disorder, animal cruelty, and the corruption and abuse in women's prisons.

Meanwhile, Ágata, Natalia's despotic mother-in-law, terrorizes the heroine's life and has stripped her of the fortune which she inherited from her parents.

Ágata teams up with Manuel, a treacherous and ambitious villain, to plot Natalia's worst tragedy: separating her from her most beloved treasure, her children.

She is tired of twenty years of domestic violence and marital rape by Rogelio and the constant insults of threats by Ágata, her mother-in-law.

Natalia informs Ágata and Rogelio that she and her kids are leaving the mansion that night and that the legal divorce will be taken care of days after.

Back in West Palm Beach, Ágata has made sure to fill her grandson and granddaughter's minds with lies about Natalia and Manuel's supposed affair.

Adrian and Elenas's kids, Freddy and Denisse (both in college but living at home), are saddened by the news of their mother in an asylum but understand it is for the best.

Charlie, Inés' son, and Gloria,Rogelio and Natalia' s daughter, like each other but Ágata disapproves of the relationship and the two start dating in secret.

Gloria gets pregnant, hoping that a baby would be reason enough for Ágata for force marriage upon them, but upon learning they are siblings and have committed incest, she decides to abort and run away from home.

She stays at Elsa's apartment, a friend of hers who ran away from home months ago because she couldn't stand seeing her parents argue all the time.

Natalia who has been keeping in touch with her son Luis all this time, learns from a series of events that Manuel is not dead and that Inés and Ágata her up.

When Telemundo announced this project in its 2007 upfront presentation, it was titled "El Otro Lado del Amor" ("The Other Side of Love").

In addition there were multiple cast departures: Aylín Mújica as Ines Vallejo,[6] Susana Dosamantes as Agata Mercernario, Alex Sirvent, Alfredo Torres (went to Madre Luna ), Géraldine Bazán as Gloria Mercernario (took a role in Victoria) and Alejandro Chabán who simply avoided playing a mild mannered homosexual teenager.

On the set in Southwest Ranches, Florida, the crew worked a 12-hour day, during which they shot one and a half episodes' worth of scenes.

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