In 1856, the emperor Dom Pedro II lived a marriage of appearances with Teresa Cristina, with whom he was forced to marry at a young age by his parents' political alliance, having two daughters with her: Isabel and Leopoldina. He truly loves Countess Luisa, a cultured and time-ahead woman who fights for the abolitionist cause and women's rights, married to Eugenio, the emperor's cousin. At the same time there are sisters Pilar and Dolores: the first went to a convent after her mother's death in childhood, growing up among books and dreaming of studying medicine - inspired by the story of Elizabeth Blackwell, the first doctor in the world -, while the second stayed at home to take care of her father, Colonel Eudoro, growing up repressed, illiterate and without vanity.
Selton Mello
as Dom Pedro II, Imperador do Brasil
Mariana Ximenes
as Luísa Margarida de Barros, Condessa de Barral
Letícia Sabatella
as Teresa Cristina de Bourbon-Duas Sicílias, Imperatriz do Brasil
Gabriela Medvedovsky
as Maria do Pilar Cavalcanti Mendes (Pilar)
Michel Gomes
as Jorge da Silva Rocha / Samuel dos Anjos
Alexandre Nero
as Antônio Carlos Rocha (Tonico)
Daphne Bozaski
as Dolores Cavalcanti Mendes
João Pedro Zappa
as Nélio Pindaíba
Heslaine Vieira
as Zayla Ephan Maquemba
Maicon Rodrigues
as Guebo Nilaja
José Dumont
as Coronel Eudoro Mendes
Ernani Moraes
as João Batista Pindaíba (Batista), Barão de Fervedouro
