It features 'Martin', a talented retired Venezuelan pianist who lives in Tuito, and who one day, unexpectedly meets 'Mariana', the youngest daughter of his best friend 'Pedro'. And without thinking, a great love story begins to be born between them. Everything would be normal if it weren't for one small detail: 'Martín' is 42 years older than 'Mariana', so both will have to face the vicissitudes that a relationship like theirs entails...
Canavial de Paixões is a Brazilian telenovela produced and shown by the Sistema Brasileiro de Televisão from 13 October 2003 through 22 March 2004. Based the original text of Caridad Bravo Adams, it was translated into the Portuguese for Enrique Zambelli and Simoni Boer, with supervision of text of Ecila Pedroso and general direction of teledramaturgia of David Grimberg. It had 118 chapters.
Bianca Castanho and Gustavo Haddad are the main protagonists. Débora Duarte, Helena Fernandes, Oscar Magrini are the main antagonists.