30 January 2023 (2023-01-30) – 30 March 2024 (2024-03-30)
Flor sem Tempo (English title: Timeless Love)[1] is a Portuguese telenovela produced by SP Televisão and broadcast by SIC. It premiered on 30 January 2023 and ended on 30 March 2024.[2] The telenovela is written by Inês Gomes with the collaboration of Cândida Ribeiro, Rita Roberto, Ana Casaca, Ana Vasques, José Pinto Carneiro e Manuel Carneiro.[3] It stars Bárbara Branco, Francisco Froes, Albano Jerónimo, Maria João Bastos, Joana Santos, Luís Esparteiro, Cristina Homem de Mello and José Wallenstein.[4][5][6]
Plot
The Torres are wine producers and the most powerful family in Vila Santa. The patriarch Fernando, born in the village, is known by all as a fair and benevolent man, quite different from the other heirs: his children and grandchildren.
Each of the Torres' heirs aspires to be Fernando's successor, but he trusts no one except his grandson Vasco, the only one who stays out of the family wars and who has been traveling the world. Now the patriarch feels he needs to prepare his succession and asks Vasco to come home. Caetana, Vasco's sister, is the one who feels most threatened and will do anything to get to power and keep her brother out of the way.
Meanwhile, when Vasco returns to Vila Santa, he runs into Catarina Valente, the daughter of the maid who mysteriously disappeared from the Torres' farm. Just out of jail, Catarina demands to know what happened to her mother. The police rule out a murder and claim that Leonor has decided to leave her job and her family. But Jorge Valente, Catarina's father, is convinced that his wife is dead and blames Torres' family. To find out the truth, Catarina moves to Vila Santa and infiltrates the Torres' farm to investigate. This is how Catarina falls in love with Vasco, but it’s hard to ignore that he’s part of the family that "stole" her mother.
Catarina's family, on the other hand, is a real troublemaker. The Valente's are broke, living off scams and petty theft, with Catarina trying to keep them from committing crimes and getting caught up in the trouble they get into. While she tries to get the family on track, to raise and protect her younger sister, her father is always getting into trouble.
The story will focus on the love between Catarina and Vasco, the search for Leonor, the Valente family’s troubles and the secrets and wars of Torres, a family in which everyone fights and betrays each other in order to have more power.
In 2021, the pre-production for the telenovela began.[28] One year later, the first scenes began to be filmed in 14 November 2022 in SP Televisão studios and also later in Azeitão and on the outskirts of Lisboa, like Cascais, that serve to give life to the fictional village Vila Santa, and Palmela in Hotel Casa Palmela, that serves to give life to the Torres family mansion.[29][30] Also, in May 2023 there were as well recordings in Gondomar.[31] Albano Jerónimo ended up recording yours last scenes on 6 March 2023, just like Sandra Barata Belo ended up on 18 May and Maria João Bastos ended up on 16 June.[32][33] The remaining cast finished the work on 6 July.
Premiering with the purpose of raising the audiences left with Amor Amor - Vol. 2, Flor Sem Tempo saw one of the worst pilot-episode rating of the first track of telenovelas broadcast by SIC, drawing a rating of 10.5 points and audience share of 21.4%.[34]
Since the first episode, the telenovela begins to show some leadship in the audiences, although not be every day.[36]
