Episode 4, Isabela's Game

Mercedes, suffering from the burns she inflicted on herself by taking a very hot shower, decides to be a nun. Lucia tells Isabela she knows the name of the killer but then her mind wanders. Alejandro visits Leonardo in the morning, finds him and Reina in pajamas. A news article is published accusing Rodrigo’s family of dealing in contraband. Reinaldo tells Alejandro that José Luis is jealous of him because he and Soledad had sex which is not true. Isabela refuses to believe the news story. Reinaldo tells Mercedes that he didn’t try to rape Soledad. Soledad begs José Luis not to hurt Alejandro because she still loves him. Reinaldo tells Mercedes she is rejecting him because he is an illegitimate child, rejected by his mother and now the love of his life. Alejandro sees José Luis and Soledad and attacks him for his accusations against his family.
Mercedes goes to the convent. Alvaro tells Alejandro that he will not let Isabela marry him because of the scandal. Isabela tells Soledad that it is all her fault. Reina tells Isabela that Alejandro tried to seduce her. She tells her godfather that she doesn’t want to marry a man who would deceive her, she is sure that Reina wouldn’t have the nerve to lie about such a thing. Isabela overhears Oscar telling somebody that he lied to Isabela, that both girls are alive. But he denies it when she confronts him. Oscar tells Isabela that he is the man for her. Reinaldo visits

Mercedes in the convent. The mother superior lets her stay even though she is convinced that Mercedes has no vocation to be a nun. Romelia won’t tell José Luis why she went again to Rodrigo’s house. Reinaldo suspects that Romelia is hiding something and determines to find out what it is. Sabas kidnaps Soledad. Reinaldo tells José Luis to withdraw the charges against him or Soledad will die. Alejandro takes Lucia to a sanatorium and visits Rosa in the hospital. Oscar and Alvaro are about to conclude their business deal. Isabela flirts with Oscar and rejects Alejandro’s advances. José Luis and Arturo hold a press conference but José Luis tells the press he lied, that his accusations against the Arcienegas were false. Sabas takes the blindfolded Soledad to a field and is about to kill her when some men arrive and rescue her. She tells she doesn’t know who kidnapped her or why (she didn’t recognize the voice of either Sabas or Reinaldo). Arturo tells Romelia that her son is a traitor.

Episode 3, Desires

Reinaldo pressures Mercedes to make love to him. Afterwards, she feels guilty but the priest pardons her because she is in love and they plan to marry. Alejandro tells Isabela it is too soon to talk of marriage and it’s too soon. Soledad visits José Luis in the hospital and sees Isabela kissing Alejandro. Romelia confronts Rodrigo about the attack on José Luis. Reinaldo admits to Rodrigo that he had Sabas shoot José Luis. José Luis tells Soledad that Reinaldo shot him and he is going to denounce him. Outside the church, Brenda tells Mercedes that Reinaldo is hers.
Isabela buys the house of her father; she didn’t tell Alejandro why the house is special to her. The police went to Rodrigo’s house to arrest Reinaldo but Mercedes tells them he couldn’t have shot at Jose Luis because he was with her all night. Oscar is furious about the lie that Mercedes tells the Policemen. Alejandro tells Leonardo that Isabela is hiding something and not been straight forward. Guillermo tells Soledad and Rosalita that Reinaldo is innocent of the charge against him. When Guillermo talks with Alejandro, they decide that Soledad made the accusation because she was jealous of the relationship between Isabela and Alejandro and he forbids Soledad to see Kike again. Oscar threatens Reinaldo, tells him to stay away from his daughter but Ray is not bothered. Alejandro arrives at the house just as Soledad is running away from Reinaldo’s kiss but she says nothing. After they got home, she tells him to leave her alone. Reinaldo tries to rape Soledad in her home but Rosalita arrives in time to stop it. When Alejandro arrives to apologize, Rosalita tries to get Soledad to tell him what happened but she refuses. Rosalita calls Guillermo and tells him about what Ray tries to do to Soledad, Guillermo later tells his father but his father doesn’t believe him but confronts Reinaldo, Reinaldo says there is no proof and if he is ever accused of rape, he says he expects Guillermo to defend him.


Isabela visits Soledad and asks what there is between her and Alejandro and Soledad insists there is nothing. But later she visits Alejandro in his office and confesses she loves him; Isabela enters and wants to know what is going on between them and Soledad left. Alejandro tells Leonardo he is through with Soledad. Reinaldo and Brenda made love while Mercedes is waiting for him to meet her for an elopement. He tells Brenda the marriage won’t change things between them but Brenda drugs his drink and calls Mercedes while Reinaldo is sleeping. When he wakes, he was furious and almost strangles Brenda. That doesn’t change her feelings. She tells Lola that Reinaldo is hers. Rosalita tells Mercedes what Reinaldo did but I’m not sure she believed her. However, she does tell Reinaldo that he is a beast and should leave her alone.

Episode 2 - Ray, the odd one out.

Kike runs away again to Soledad. Isabela offers Soledad work as a model, but she refuses knowing what her intentions are. Reinaldo complains to Bernarda about the way his father treats him and he is always unhappy for not knowing his mother. Guillermo meets Lola’s sister, a budding musician, and is attracted to her. Rodrigo visits Soledad and asks her to become Kike’s tutor seeing how attached they are to each other. Soledad sees Isabela kissing Alejandro and she got so angry and jealous. Reinaldo, surprised to see Soledad at his home grabs her arm and wants to start harassing her but Rodrigo walks in at that time to save Soledad and he forces him to apologize to her. Isabela and Alejandro talk with Reina and Emperatrix; Isabela calls him her novio “after the night they spent together”. Alejandro tells Leonardo he loves Soledad and not Isabela and Kike wants only Soledad.
Mercedes prays for the strength to stop loving Reinaldo but it’s really not easy for her to get him out of her mind. Reinaldo tells Mercedes that she is responsible for his behavior, swears he will love her and promises to change if she comes back into his life.
Soledad visits Kike again, Isabela assumes that Soledad is Kike’s nana since she doesn’t really understand the relationship between the parties. Isabela visits Providencia to offer Soledad a job but Providencia isn’t fooled; she knows why she came and tells her to leave since Soledad isn’t at home. Oscar tells Reinaldo to stay away from his daughter Mercedes that he is not good for his daughter but Mercedes tells her father she loves Reinaldo and that she has forgiven him for whatever he has done to her. Guillermo invites Rosalita, Lola’s sister, to his home. Oscar tells Mercedes he rather see her dead than been with Reinaldo. Soledad refuses, again, Isabela’s offer of a job. Lola tells Rosalita, her sister, not to go to Guillermo’s home again knowing well that the relationship between the two of them might not work out and of course Rodrigo’s feeling towards the relationship.
Isabela talks to her nana about her sister; she is sure that, like her, she was probably raised by a nana who took her away when their father was murdered. Isabela visits Oscar in his home and he served her drinks and along the line Isabela drugs his drink but then Alejandro arrives and picked up the drink meant for Oscar but Isabela on sighting this, spills the drugged one. Alejandro discovers that his aunt Lucia has been taken to the hospital, he doesn’t like this idea and he gets her out of there and returns her home. Kike runs away again to Soledad because he thinks that it’s only Soledad that loves and understands her. Isabela announces her engagement to Alejandro (he doesn’t seem to have anything to say about it). Romelia visits Rodrigo, warns him she will tell Reinaldo the truth if anything happens to José Luis. Mercedes sees Brenda kissing Reinaldo in the park. Isabela tells Soledad to stay away from Alejandro if she doesn’t want her for an enemy. Isabela introduces her godfather to Oscar and Rodrigo. Sabas, in a car with Reinaldo, shoots José Luis.

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.

Jenifa

What do you guys think of Jennifer? A beautiful Yoruba film, I love the way Funke Akindele portrays the village girl character, a typical Ibadan girl. She really did justice to the work. It’s a must watch for every students especially the undergraduates that believes that the only way to make it in life is through dating several men and living big on campus not minding the end result. What do you think?