“…I've been dreaming of her for so long and all I know is that she is called Noelia” In fact, Noelia's agony is not really so. Just as it happens with most human beings, she doesn't have the faintest idea of what is going on around her. She is the Fernandez's only child, the eldest and the youngest. Fortunately for her parents and for us, Noelia has lots of virtues. I say fortunately for us because a protagonist without virtues would be the antagonist in which case we'd be in serious trouble. So, let's define Noelia according to what she is not. Noelia Fernández Santamaría IS NOT: She is not the antagonist of The Last but One Kiss. Drug-addict. A woman with a very bad conduct. The daughter of a man who is not called Fernández Ugly Rude Raised in a bad family Diabetic A man It is to be expected that by turning to a description that lists negative features, the reader of this project can easily understand that a woman like Noelia can only exits in telenovelas. Because in fact, Noelia is definitely well-educated; she has attended high school in the United States of America, has taken up several courses of glamour and international cuisine and goes to the gym every morning; she's sweet, tender, talented and extremely pampered by her mother and father who do not have the slightest suspicion, not even in their worst dream, that their baby daughter might fall in love with a man different from the one they have chosen for her, different from Eddy Jaramillo, the excellent match, the son of American immigrants that settled down in Medellín, Colombia, a young man who has already given her an engagement ring and from whom they expect the best possible performance ever, as a husband, a father and a son-in-law. But as it always happens in telenovelas as well as in real life, Noelia's parents are completely unaware of who her daughter actually is. It would never cross their minds that the girl might like good-for-nothings, or that she finds bohemian life hotter than the Country Club lifestyle, and that the idea of being the singer of a band that plays romantic music can be more appealing to her than the white blouse and the phonendoscope their parents hanged on her ever since she uttered her first "goo-goo". When Noelia arrives in Colombia, she discovers that right across her building there's a very tempting world, basically in contrast with the kind of pasteurized life she has had during her last years in a condo in Coral Gables. In this new place, boys are used to saying flattering comments to girls, they throw parties, have music bands, goof off in the park until very late at night, gossiping and fighting the cold weather, warming up bottles of coarse brandy in mass and most interesting, none of them is afraid of Juan Fernández, her Dad. That street, the same street where Manolo, Speedy González, the Good Fatso, Mussed-up and Eva Maria the woman with ruby lips live, will be the bridge that will connect Noelia's life, her parents' pasteurized life and her boyfriend with the true NOELIA. She will come and go along that bridge trying to put together two different worlds, as different in nature as water and oil. Noelia plays the role of a plain woman who tries to mix the education and affection their parents have given her with the kind of life she truly wants to live. Before moving to Colombia, she studied dancing and singing at the Performing Arts School in Miami, so as to have a hobby that would round off her career in the School of Medicine in Boston where she will probably go to once she marries Eddy and returns to this original land of opportunities. What nobody knows though, or should I say, what nobody knows in this telenovela because both the viewers and the script writers know that her true fate lies in her hands, or better said, in Manolo's feet, the fateful night when he steals Mr. Juan Fernández's car and she almost dies in his arms if life hadn't given her a second chance.