Paulo Rosanova

It starts between two children: Júlia and Augusto. He comes back later, after graduating, and they revive the flame of yore. Júlia's father refuses Augusto's request and contracts her marriage with a farmer, his friend. The girl is poisoned. Her father injures Augusto. Julia does not die, because she has only taken a narcotic.

Paul and Virginia are two very close children who, despite coming from different families, are raised as siblings on 18th-century Isle de France. However, they fall in love as teenagers, and Virginia's mother decides to separate them.