Brazil Avenue (Season 1)

Brazil Avenue is a dynamic, lifelike, and modern telenovela that reveals how unrelenting ambition and inflicted cruelty can change a young girl’s destiny and lead her to seek revenge.

The plot follows the dramatic story of Rita, a sweet young woman who struggles to recover part of the life her gold digger stepmother, Carminha, took from her when she was only a child. When Rita’s father dies, prematurely, Carminha and her lover, Max, send the young girl off to live in a landfill, so that she doesn’t stand in the way of their plan to get rich. There, she is subjected to child labor under the control of a deplorable man, named Nilo. But, she is lucky enough to meet Batata, a boy who becomes her best friend and true love. He takes her to live with other children, under the care of motherly Lucinda, in a house at the landfill. Fortunately, Rita is soon adopted and moves out of the country with a nice family who changes her name to Nina. Batata is adopted by Carminha and Tufão and they name him Jorginho.