Mother and daughter in real life, the opening sequence features real life photographs of Regina Duarte and Gabriela Duarte.
The second trademark character of "Helena" portrayed by Regina Duarte in a Manoel Carlos series after História de Amor (1995).
Director Paulo Ubiratan passed away during filming and was replaced by Ricardo Waddington, who would become a frequent collaborator to Manoel Carlos. This was Ubiratan's last of many TV dramas directed and produced on Globo TV.
At the dawn of the Internet in Brazil, fans created a webpage titled "I Hate Eduarda". Portuguese fans fired back with a page titled "I Love Eduarda". Gabriela Duarte has stated, "I never stood up for her saying 'oh, she's getting too annoying, I should do this some other way'. I just did, I wanted to do it with a soul. I believe there lies all this controversy."