The wildly successful Mexican
telenovela Amor Real charts the lifelong, on-again, off-again romance between pampered aristocrat Matilde (Adela Noriega) and the man who was kept from her by her parents, the dashing peasant Adolfo (Mauricio Islas). Set against the backdrop of 19th century Mexico, the series followed the forbidden lovers through war, poverty, pregnancy, and other tumultuous plot twists over the course of its two-year run. ~ Michael Hastings, All Movie Guide