Salsa e Merengue(1996)

Salsa e Merengue is a telenovela centered on a life-altering secret. Thirty years before the story begins, wealthy Bárbara's stillborn child is secretly replaced with a poor woman's baby by her husband Guilherme. When the swapped boy, Eugênio, develops leukemia and urgently needs a bone marrow transplant from a blood relative, Guilherme finally reveals the truth to Bárbara. The couple must track down Anabel Muñoz, Eugênio's biological mother, who abandoned her pregnancy years ago after an affair with the unscrupulous Urbano. Now a widow raising five children of her own, Anabel holds the key to saving Eugênio's life. As the two families collide, buried secrets and hidden connections threaten to unravel everything they thought they knew.