Amor de Mãe

Lurdes (Regina Casé), Vitória (Taís Araújo) and Thelma (Adriana Esteves) are three women from different social classes that live their dilemmas as mothers. Lurdes is a struggling woman who had four children: Magno, Ryan, Érica, and Domênico, who was sold at the age of 2 by her ex-husband to child trafficker Kátia (Vera Holtz). Knowing that Domênico was sent to Rio de Janeiro, Lurdes decides to go look for him with the rest of her children and, on the way, she finds the orphan Camila (Jessica Ellen), whom she decides to raise. Vitória is a 45-year-old lawyer who has been unable to get pregnant, so she decides to adopt a child. While waiting for her adopted son to arrive, she meets Davi (Vladimir Brichta). Vitória spends the night with him and is surprised to discover that she is pregnant. Thelma has been a widow for more than 20 years and is overprotective of her son Danilo (Chay Suede). When Danilo was a child he survived a fire that killed his father, thanks to his mother who saved him. Thelma's life changes when she discovers that she has an incurable brain aneurysm. She decides to make a list of things she wants to do before dying, but all the wishes on her list involve Danilo, who does not know about the disease and wants to have distance from his mother because he feels suffocated. Throughout the story, the three women will discover a bond that will connect their lives forever.

• Regina Casé as Lurdes dos Santos Silva^[8][9][10]
• Adriana Esteves as Thelma Nunes Viana^[9][11][12]
• Taís Araújo as Vitória Amorim^[13][14][15]
• Isis Valverde as Betina Torres da Nóbrega^[16][17]
• Humberto Carrão as Sandro Amorim Camargo
• Chay Suede as Danilo Lopes Viana^[11][18]
• Irandhir Santos as Álvaro da Nóbrega^[19][20]
• Juliano Cazarré a Magno dos Santos Silva^[21][22]
• Arieta Corrêa as Leila Moreira dos Santos^[23]
• Vladimir Brichta as Davi Moretti^[14][24]
• Murilo Benício as Raul Camargo^[25][26]
• Nanda Costa as Érica dos Santos Silva^[27][28]
• Jéssica Ellen as Camila dos Santos^[18]
• Thiago Martins as Ryan dos Santos Silva^[29][30]
• Érika Januza as Marina Castro
• Malu Galli as Maria Lídia Camargo^[26]
• Letícia Lima as Estela Teixeira^[31]
• Tuca Andrada as Belizário Lacerda
• Camila Márdila as Amanda Crespo
• Maria as Verena Ovisco
• Magali Biff as Nicete Torres
• Enrique Diaz as Durval Barbosa^[32]
• Nanego Lira as José de Oliveira
• Débora Lamm as Miranda Amorim Junqueira^[33][34]
• Milhem Cortaz as Dr. Matias Junqueira^[33][35][36]
• Isabel Teixeira as Jane D'Ávila^[37]
• Clarissa Kiste as Natália Amorim
• Ana Flavia Cavalcanti as Miriam Amaral^[38]
• Clarissa Pinheiro as Maria da Penha Moreira "Penha"
• Douglas Silva as Marconi^[39]
• Alejandro Claveaux as Tales Paiva
• Giulio Lopes as Miguel Moretti
• Duda Batsow as Carolina "Carol" Amorim Barbosa
• WJ as Edvaldo Lopes "Garnizé"
• Dora Freind as Loyane Barreto
• Dida Camero as Eunice Matos Brandão
• Rodolfo Vaz as Nuno
• Nando Brandão as Lucas Gonçalves
• Susanna Kruger as Osana Barreto
• Gustavo Novaes as Treinador Samuel
• MC Cabelinho as Diogo Barreto "Farula"/"MC Farula"^[40]
• Aldene Abreu as Dayse das Chagas
• Xamã as Phanton
• Alex Patrício as Iuri Porto
• Tobias Carrieres as Nivaldo Machado
• Cacá Ottoni as Joana de Sá
• Beatrice Sayd as Edilene Reis
• Clara Galinari as Brenda Moreira dos Santos^[23]
• Pedro Guilherme Rodrigues as Tiago Amorim
• Gabriel Palhares as Nicolas Amorim Junqueira
• Gianlucca Mauad as Tomás Amorim Junqueira

Dias has mentioned that both her mother, actress Sônia Dias, and her daughter Helena, inspired her in part to write Amor de Mãe.^[44] She delivered the synopsis of the plot in the first semester of 2017, and on 19 June of that year the project was approved to enter the queue of 9pm telenovelas for 2019.^[45] Originally the plot would be called Troia, in reference to the mythological city, but the name was changed to Amor de Mãe (Mother's Love) to better express the central plot around the three mothers.^[46] Filming of the telenovela began in August 2019.^[47] Amor de Mãe was the first production to be filmed in Globo's newly opened MG4 studios.^[48][49] On 16 March 2020, it was announced that filming of the telenovela was suspended indefinitely due to the COVID-19 pandemic; the final episode of the first part would air on 21 March 2020.^[50][51] Reruns of previous telenovelas currently occupy its timeslot.^[52] Filming resumed on 10 August 2020, with work pace being reduced to comply with safety guidelines. 23 episodes are planned to be filmed and will premiere in 2021.^[6] Part of the changes in production include actors arriving to the recording studios with their makeup and costumes ready. Those who need to travel for the studios are now staying in a hotel. Because of these changes, some actors were eliminated from the production, such as Alejandro Claveaux who portrayed Tales.^[53]