Thursday, January 15, 2009

Episode 1, La Ravancha - Love on Cruise Ship


On a cruise ship, Alejandro is attracted to Soledad, a beautiful young lady whom she met on the ship and she turns out to be in charge of entertainment. Alejandro dream of meeting her again, looked for her everywhere but couldn’t find her, at last he settles for a picture that they took together when Soledad was seeing to the guests welfare at the restaurant. Providencia , the ship’s head chef, the woman who raised Soledad when she was little and the person Soledad believes to be her mother learn that Doña Rosa, her grandmother is ill and they decide to leave the ship in Miami and care for Rosa. Finding Rosa very ill, Soledad calls Alejandro whom she had learned was a doctor. He cares for Rosa but Providencia doesn’t want the two to become involved. She knows that Alejandro’s father killed Soledad’s father, a murder she witnessed and caused her to flee with the young Soledad.
Meanwhile, Isabela has arrived in Miami with Lupe, her nana, to open a business with the help of her godfather, Alvaro Ruiz. She hopes to find the murderer of her father and when she meets Oscar, the man from whom she will be buying the location for her business, she believes she recognizes him.
At the airport, she bumps into Alejandro who is picking up Kike, the son who has been raised for the past 4 years by his grandparents, since the death of his wife. With his grandmother ill, the boy has come to live with Alejandro’s family: his father Rodrigo, his vicious brother Reinaldo, his other brother Guillermo, his father’s new wife Emperatrix and her daughter Reina and his crazy aunt Lucia. Reina sets her sights on Alejandro, wants to date Alejandro but was disappointed. Reinaldo loves Mercedes, the daughter of Oscar, but she has broken up with him because of the type of man he is. He is arrested for rape but is freed when his father’s goon Sabes, he threatens the girl that accused Reinaldo into retracting the accusation, and Reinaldo was released freed.
After seeing Alejandro with Soledad, Reinaldo decides he wants her and finding her alone in the hallway of a nightclub attacks her. She is rescued by José Luis who is then beaten up by Sabes and his goons. Providencia tells Soledad that Alejandro’s family has a bad reputation, mafia connections, etc. but Soledad has fallen in love with Alejandro and refuses to believe her...in spite of the attack by Reinaldo.
Rodrigo has a lover Lola, she works as a manager in Rodrigo’s bar. She was furious when she discovers that Rodrigo, her lover has married again. Sabes and Reinaldo threaten Arturo, a reporter who is working with José Luis to expose Rodrigo on all his shady deals. During the first week, Soledad saves Kike when he falls off a small boat and finds a wandering Lucia where Lola met them and offered to escort Lucia back home. Oscar finds Reinaldo forcibly kissing Mercedes and tells him to leave his daughter alone. Rodrigo and Oscar suspect that Isabela is the daughter of the man he killed, especially when she questions them about the history of the house she wants to buy, a house in which there was a murder. Isabela is convinced that Oscar is the murderer; she does not seem to suspect Rodrigo.

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