Amor 80

Amor 80 (in english: Love '80) is a Mexican telenovela produced and shown by Canal Extra, authored by Arnaldo Corrêa and Theodoro Giancommo, being shown between March 9, 2007 and February 8, 2008, totalizing 249 episodes.

Plot
The telenovela follows three young couples: the first being formed by Sergio Rojas and Claudia Ribriane, Sergio is the youngest son of the mayor and first lady of an interior town, Richard Rojas and Francia Rojas, and moves to Cancún to study at a private university after completing high school, the young boy has a relaxed, mocking personality and without many worries, being considered "childish", on the other hand, Claudia is a girl already used to the big city who dates Teodoro, a young man with a "bad boy" vibe, and who is a compulsive alcoholic and smoker, which displeases Cláudia, to the point where she ends up deciding to break up with him in a small bar, where Sergio happened to be present. Shortly afterwards, Sergio ends up finding the girl desperate for not being able to find a taxi or a bus, and offers her a ride, and discovers that she will be staying at the same hotel where he is staying. As the plot evolves, Sergio matures and gradually loses his childish, while Claudia nurtures a loving feeling for him and finally manifests it a few times, finally feeling sure that she has found the right man after a disappointment with Teodoro.

The second couple is formed by Teodoro Rueda and Luna Valdéz, Teodoro is a young man in a bad boy mood and with a mentality as immature as Sergio, he is an alcoholic and compulsive smoker, in addition to being a metalhead who sings in a bar in the neighborhood where he lives, he always gets involved in fights and gets arrested. Teodoro initially dates Claudia, but after a fight due to his irresponsibility for having left her waiting for a long time at the bus station, they break up,he meets Luna right after breaking up with Cláudia, after having drunk compulsively and running her over while driving, he decides to take her to the hospital and, the next day, when he returns on his sober side, Teodoro decides to see the state of una in the hospital. When she recovers, she ends up moving from where she lives, and her new home is exactly in the neighborhood where Teodoro lives, being, above all, his neighbor, she hates his behavior and attitudes, often getting into discussions like "bad boy", who responds with jokes, from these discussions, Teodoro and Luna, get to know each other and gradually nurture the romantic feeling within both, this loving feeling merges with hate, and the couple's first kiss it is, exactly, during a big argument between the two.

The third couple is formed by Jhon Tejedor and Sophie As'ad, Jhon is a young man who lives helping his father, who is a street vendor, and who, with his death, decides to rent a small property where he puts a typical Mexican food store, the most frequent customer of the new establishment is Sophie, Sergio's classmate who is the daughter of a businessman in the culinary branch of Arab descent, Sophie then decides to ask her father, Bahij, to help the young man, Sophie's father answers the request. request and closes a partnership with Jhon. In addition to becoming a great friend of Bahij, Jhon approaches Sophie, this couple goes against the grain of the old tale of a love between a poor man and a rich woman who is opposed by the father, who only wants a rich man to marry his daughter, Bahij, instead of wanting a rich man to marry his daughter, actually wants a man of character and fighter, without worrying about the financial side.

Another plots that surround the soap opera are: the mystery behind the murder of Sophie's mother, Lateefa, to which Jhon is unfairly punished even with Bahij and Sophie having total known of the boy's innocence, arrested by maneuver made by Bahij's self-serving adviser, Nico, which was unmasked the real murderer of Lateefa, becoming a fugitive, and at the end, committing suicide by jumping from a ravine, after a car chase that ends when his car runs out of gas and also shooting Bahij in revenge.

Another mystery that also surrounded the plot was the question whether or not Perla had betrayed Sergio's older brother, Benito, the mystery begins in chapter 117, when Benito suspects that Perla has betrayed him with his friend, Rafael, after she has gone to her friend's country house, and returned with strange marks apparent from hickeys on her neck and back, Perla justifies herself by saying that Rafael's country house was suffering from an infestation of mosquitoes. Perla becomes pregnant over the course of the episodes, and this encourages Benito to take a DNA test, but at the request of his parents, he stops thinking about it, when the daughter, named Lupe, is born, Benito finds even more similarities between the baby and Rafael, and decides to take the exam once and for all, without caring about his parents' requests that he keep the family together, Perla, however, asks Benito for a divorce, they break up, and she is the one who ends up having possession of the exam result, going away from La Mira (fictional city created for the plot) with Lupe and leaving the mystery of the supposed betrayal unsolved, thus leaving the audience to have its conviction if Perla betrayed or not Benito with Rafael, who despite all the suspicions, in the end peaceful with Benito and remains his friend.

Another subplot of the telenovela is the comic power dispute between Richard Rosas and Cezar Castán, who attack each other in different ways, one of the striking moments of this dispute is when Richard puts mice and cats to destroy Cezar's wife's birthday party, Diane Castán, and also "presents" her with a bath of pink paint. The sequence of Richard destroying Diane's birthday meant that the episode in which the scenes were aired (episode 201) had the third highest recorded audiences for that telenovela and also one of the highest recorded audiences of a episode from all Canal Extra soap operas.

The plot takes place in Mexico at the height of the 1980s, portraying music, outfits, cars, accessories, utensils, innovations and other highlights of this decade.