Caray, Caray!

The material in quotation marks is translated from the ESMAS site.


JUAN DOMÍNGUEZ - Eduardo Santamarina - "He's attractive, tall, hyperactive, corpulent, happy, and poetic. More than religious, he's spiritual. he's a hopeless romantic, a brave man, hardened and charismatic, a bit of a liar, but with a good heart. For him Woman is most important, he considers her a marvellous being who should be praised."

At the beginning of the story, he's escaping his tiny home town two steps ahead of men who are tired of his womanizing ways and has come to the house of Samuel Cachón on the very night that Samuel shoots himself dead with only poor Juan, in his running shorts, as witness.

At some point in the past Samuel Cachón had an affair with Ana Dávila and got her pregnant. He never spent any time with his illegitimate daughter Paula and now regrets it bitterly. His legitimate family is Nidia and daughters Yadira and Marely.

PAULA DÁVILA - Mayrín Villanueva - "Paula is Juan's great love; she is a young attractive kindly executive. Despite her having studied abroad, she is ingenuous. Her need for tenderness, affection and acceptance lead her to be imprisoned in the lies of a married man who will make her suffer."

ANA DÁVILA - María Marcela - "She's a sweet, pretty, sober, honest, decent woman. Her error was to fall in love with a married man (Samuel) with whom she had a daughter (Paula) the man never recognized. She fears her daughter is committing her same error and struggles to protect her."

NIDIA CACHÓN - Sylvia Pasquel - "Nidia is a happy widow, ambitious and too impulsive, which gets her into trouble. Her preoccupation with looking young sometimes makes her ridiculous. She's obsessed with Juan." her husband, just before offing himself, told Juan "My wife is a "cualquiera" (a common ie loose woman) and so is my daughter Yadira. Marely is the only one who can be saved - take care of her."

MARELY CACHÓN - Florencia de Saracho - "An introverted university student, noble and affectionate, with a highly developed sense of justice and responsibility. She is the most sensible one in her family, but she has a strong, impulsive temperament, though she is not resentful. 'Marelita' is Juan's second grand love."

YADIRA CACHÓN - Dacia Arcaraz - "Yadira is a spoiled, vain, extroverted girl, selfish and "easy," a lazy student but very ambitious. she's pretty and knows how to accentuate her sensuality. She thinks her future depends not on her personal efforts but rather in marrying a rich man."

CÉSAR LUIS FARELL - Alexis Ayala - "He's very attractive, a seducer drawn to any woman who's in front of him, despite being married. He's astute, an opportunist, able to look ahead, sure of himself, extroverted and with a great sense of humor, but he's also a manipulating lying hypocrite." This is the guy who, much later in this novela (maybe in the ultimos capitulos), will be waiting at the church to marry Paula (who looks very reluctant).

PASTOR GAITÁN - Pedro Romo - "He's a bad-humored, resentful, abusive blackmailer. He's a repressed homosexual hopelessly in love with Juan. He likes to sow discord and is servile with his boss (César) but also betrays him. He lives with his mother whom he loves but also hates for controlling his life."

PASTORA GAITÁN - Alejandra Meyer - "She's a controlling and overprotective mother. She has a love-hate relationship with her son. She spends her life reproaching her son for the sacrifices she's made for him and ridiculing him in front of others."

ENRIQUE BUENO - Eugenio Bartilotti - "He's Juan's best friend and considers him his brother. He's generous and well-intentioned. Even though he likes to entertain himself, he's very responsible, works tirelessly to improve himself and is capabable of sacrificing everything for Yadira, the woman he loves." (This show's Tomás Mora?)

FERNANDO LARA - Arturo Barba - "Fernando is Juan's close friend, a good guy despite his surly appearance. He has a volatile nature, speaks little, but when he speaks he says a lot. Disappointment in love left him unconfident and reluctant to get close to others. He has an elevated idea of what friendship is and therefore is capable of sacrificing a lot for those he considers his friends, Juan and Enrique."

MÓNICA BERROCAL DE FARELL - Reneé Varsi - "A classy woman who speaks several languages, with licenses and postgraduate degrees earned abroad. She's successful and hardworking, and seeks above all professional recognition. She can be tender or hard, according to what's necessary. She'll ferociously defend that which she thinks is hers. She is rancorous and vengeful in the face of betrayal."

ALIRIO PERAFÁN - Roberto D’amico - "An unscrupulous lawyer who always looks out for his own interests. He's not very attractive and has hangups, and his eternal love for Nidia leads him to fulfill all her whims, and to feel very jealous of Juan."

IVONNE MOSQUERA - Arleth Terán - "A provocative and sometimes vulgar woman, obsessed with getting her former lover César Luis to get a divorce and marry her. She hates Paula and always tries to make her life impossible. She's scheming, poisonous, and very dangerous."

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