O.K. This is a good try. But this 'novela' has not the quality of the storyline of, e.g., "La Noche", also a Peruvian production. First of all, the "good" things: yeah, the costumes. There is a lot of great effort there but it would have been nice to teach the actors how to use them! You cannot move or walk in a 20th-century manner using those clothes!! Then, the few exterior locations... but knowing Peru, I think that they could use its wonderful natural sites a lot better. Then, the "less good" things: the actors. Only Teddy Guzman is completely natural and attached to her character. I know that today Meier and Cepeda are "famous" but besides their many and long kissing scenes, I don't think they had much to give, at the time, as actors. They do not enlighten their characters and, worse of all, there is no chemistry between them at all. I saw no love, no passion and no tenderness in their eyes, they were just like a couple of shy friends. And Sonia Oquendo really overacts all the time! A thing that really shocked me was the misuse of the contemporary language. I do not think that people could talk in that way at the end of the 19th century. And it is not only the use of certain expressions but the way they are said. Unhappily, there were very strong class differences in society at the time and many scenes this 'novela' presents are simply impossible to imagine. As I said at the beginning, the script is not good enough. It is always the same ridiculous story about the orphan and miserable girl who gets to work in a rich house in order to seduce its patron. It's "Simplemente Maria" or "Maria Mercedes" a hundred-year ago. Not even the music adds a little bit of charm to this "great" South American production.
