In 1856, the emperor Dom Pedro II lived a marriage of appearances with Teresa Cristina, with whom he was forced to marry at a young age by his parents' political alliance, having two daughters with her: Isabel and Leopoldina. He truly loves Countess Luisa, a cultured and time-ahead woman who fights for the abolitionist cause and women's rights, married to Eugenio, the emperor Napoleon's cousin. At the same time there are sisters Pilar and Dolores: the first went to a convent after her mother's death in childhood, growing up among books and dreaming of studying medicine - inspired by the story of Elizabeth Blackwell, the first doctor in the world -, while the second stayed at home to take care of her father, Colonel Eudoro, growing up repressed, illiterate and without vanity.
as Dom Pedro II, Imperador do Brasil
as Luísa Margarida de Barros, Condessa de Barral
as Teresa Cristina de Bourbon-Duas Sicílias, Imperatriz do Brasil
as Maria do Pilar Cavalcanti Mendes (Pilar)
as Jorge da Silva Rocha / Samuel dos Anjos
as Antônio Carlos Rocha (Tonico)
as Dolores Cavalcanti Mendes
as Nélio Pindaíba
as Zayla Ephan Maquemba
as Guebo Nilaja
as Coronel Eudoro Mendes
as João Batista Pindaíba (Batista), Barão de Fervedouro
as Carlota Maria Pindaíba (Lota), Baronesa de Fervedouro
as Lupita de Jesus
as Isabel de Bragança, Princesa do Brasil
as Leopoldina de Bragança, Princesa do Brasil
as Gastão de Orléans, Conde d’Eu
as Luís Augusto, Duque de Saxe-Coburgo-Gota
as Mãe Cândida
as Dom Olu Ephan Maquemba
as Clemência Martinho
as Joaquim Matamouros Martinho Filho (Quinzinho)
as Vitória Milmann Martinho
as Justina dos Santos
as Luís Alves de Lima e Silva, Marquês de Caxias
as Celestina de Campos Sorrento, Baronesa de Urú
as Lupicínio Borges
as Francisco Solano López
as Bernardo Pindaíba (Bernardinho)
as Nicolau
as Jamil
as Nino Sorrento
as Irineu Evangelista de Sousa, Barão de Mauá
as General Cristiano Dumas
as Madame Lambert
as Madre Zoé
as Hilário Martinho
as Prisca Martinho
as José de Alencar
as Manolo
