A Grande Mentira(1968)

A Grande Mentira is a Brazilian telenovela centered on a collision between wealth and love. When millionaire Roberto Albuquerque strikes Maria Cristina with his car, an unexpected romance blooms between them. His mother, Viridiana, fiercely opposes the relationship, viewing Maria Cristina as beneath their social standing. As tensions escalate, Viridiana's obsession with keeping the couple apart spirals into psychological unraveling. The drama intensifies toward its climax when a mentally fractured Viridiana commits a desperate act of self-destruction, setting her own dress ablaze. A Grande Mentira explores themes of class conflict, maternal control, and the destructive power of prejudice through the lens of classic soap opera melodrama.