RASTROS DE MENTIRAS, the Spanish-dubbed, international edit of the 2013 Brazilian telenovela AMOR À VIDA, premieres tonight on MundoFox at 9 p.m. ET. It is the fourth major work from Globo to reach broadcast television in the US this year following LADO A LADO, AVENIDA BRASIL and LA VIDA SIGUE, breaking a long drought of Globo productions being consigned to pay television in this country. FINA ESTAMPA and ESCRITO EN LAS ESTRELLAS, a pair decidedly mediocre Globo telenovelas, were also broadcast this year, with FINA ESTAMPA still running weekdays at noon ET on Telemundo.The plot of RASTROS DE MENTIRAS concerns Paloma, a woman from a wealthy family of doctors who struggles to follow in their footsteps. While the family is touring Peru, Paloma’s conniving brother Felix, who hopes to be the sole heir of the family’s wealth, reveals to her she was secretly adopted. Devastated by the news, Paloma runs off with a lover she met on the trip.
Paloma gets pregnant and returns to Brazil. She winds up giving birth in a bathroom. Felix finds her unconscious, takes the baby and abandons her in a dumpster where she is found by Bruno, a kind man who coincidentally recently lost his wife and son in childbirth. Bruno raises the child as his own. Years later, fate brings Bruno and Paloma together and the pair begins to fall in love.