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The opening theme was "Ai, que Saudade da Amélia" , a famous samba classic, but rearranged in a melancholic, minor key—setting a nostalgic, tragic tone.

Jorge Amado is the master of Brazilian erotic literature. In Dona Flor , the protagonist is a respectable widow married to the ghost of her first husband—a wild, irresponsible gambler who was a beast in bed. When she remarries a sober, dull pharmacist, she finds herself torn between social respectability and the "forbidden" memory of carnal passion. deseo prohibido novela brasilena

Raised in a convent, Serena returns to her hometown dreaming of becoming a writer—a scandalous ambition for a woman in the 1930s. She is the daughter of a powerful Colonel, a man who sees his daughters as bargaining chips for social alliances. Her father wants to force her into a marriage of convenience with a man she does not love. The opening theme was "Ai, que Saudade da