The very first TV project to deal with the topic of AIDS in Brazil.
The plane crash was clearly inspired by the Varig Flight 254 that happened in 1989. The pilot went into a different route, got flying in circles, running out of fuel and then force landing and crashing in the Amazon forest.
On mid-2024, Pedro Vasconcelos revealed that he developed a serious drug addiction problem for a few years, which started out in this miniseries. He claimed that he went through extensive researches while composing Victor, the drug addict teen character he played on the show, which led to a close contact with drugs. In the soap opera The Next Victim (1995), the problem was close to an end, which served to help him play a troubled drug addict teen who's on the path of recovery.