Til Money Drive us Apart
CHAPTERS
SYNOPSIS
This tragicomedy tells the story of Rafael Mendez, a modest but enterprising boy who an unfortunate night, on having come in his old car from a disastrous business meeting, accidentally drives Alejandra Maldonado of the road. The car of the attractive woman rolls about an abyss. Rafael rescues her and drives her to a near clinic, and this is where his life suffers a complete and unexpected tumble. At the clinic, Alejandra, with the little clarity and sense that she still has, manages to accuse him. Rafael goes to jail and from here on forward he will have to face legal and economic hell. Before rolling about the abyss, Alejandra was close to marrying a distinguished and feared attorney, and the accident spoils her wedding. The fall causes her multiple and serious fractures and keeps her from her job as an executive, causing her big losses. Besides, she must surrender to a delicate and costly operation in the United States, where her health insurance plan does not cover the expenses. Her family, aristocratic and very wealthy in the past is crossing through serious economic problems and cannot pay for the operation. Rafael comes to an agreement with Alejandra’s boyfriend: he asks him to allow him to get out of jail in exchange for paying for the 70 thousand dollars of the operation, for the obligations caused by the accident and for the money lost in the organization of the cancelled wedding. During the next 3 years, Rafael, a poor salesman who earns a maximum of 600 thousand pesos a month doing random business deals, will have to pay Alejandra around six million pesos per month. The agreement contemplates a couple of dark and implacable clauses: if he does not achieve the monthly approved amount, Rafael will lose his mother’s house and will return to jail. Rafael goes to interview after interview all with the same result: rejection. Nobody is ready to pay him the sum of money he needs. Driven to despair by the proximity of the first payment, he decides to inquire for the woman whom he injured to try to find a possible solution to his problem. This is how he finds out that Alejandra is a sales manager who leads a group of sales people at a car dealer. Alejandra is a temperamental woman who is feared by her sales team, obsessive and implacable, and her character is further affected by the injuries that the accident left her. Alejandra has something very clear in her mind: she hates the man who sent her down the abyss. This is the panther that Rafael decides to face in her own office. On having seen him, Alejandra believes that he comes to pay the first installment of his debt, but almost suffers a heart attack when she hears from the lips of this man that she must collaborate to him, by hiring him in this company as seller and assuring him minimal revenue of six million pesos. She reacts wildly and throws off board Rafael’s brilliant idea! Nevertheless, she must swallow her judgments when she speaks with her boyfriend. He, who is a shrewd attorney, knows that this that can be the only viable exit to her problem. And this way, Alejandra Maldonado must hire Rafael Mendez, the man she most hates in her life. The two will start working together in the middle of a great hell generated by the economic pressures and her constant reproaches. Rafael will work without truce under Alejandra’s implacable whip. This is a relationship of hatred that little by little is turning into a relationship of love, and where Rafael and Alejandra will begin to understand that this accident more than a misfortune have brought the love they were searching for, and that finally the agreement that they signed, is nothing more than an agreement to love.
TECHNICAL FILE
A PRODUCTION OF RCN TELEVISIÓN S. A. 2006°
ORIGINAL IDEA OF: FERNANDO GAITÁN
SCRIPTS BY: FERNANDO GAITÁN, LINA MARÍA URIBE, ANDRÉS BURGOS
ARGUMENTATIVE ADVISING: HENRY PÉREZ
EXECUTIVE PRODUCTION: SERGIO OSORIO, LUIS EDUARDO CHACÓN, FERNANDO GAITÁN
GENERAL DIRECTOR: SERGIO OSORIO
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR: GLORIA PARRA
DIRECTOR’S ASSISTANT: MARÍA CLAUDIA GARCÍA
HEAD OF PRODUCTION: PILAR FERNÁNDEZ
ORIGINAL SONG: ANDRÉS CEPEDA
ORIGINAL MUSIC: JUAN GABRIEL TURBAY, ANDRÉS CEPEDA
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: MAURICIO CADAVID
ART DIRECOR: REBECA PIÑERES
HEAD OF SETS: SOFÍA MORALES
COSTUME: MARTHA TORRES, CARLOS PACHÓN
NUMBER OF EPISODES: 120 (ESTIMATED DURATION)
DURATION: 163 x 60”