Suave Veneno (English title: Mild Poison) is a Brazilian telenovela produced and aired on TV Globo from January 18 to September 18, 1999, at 8 pm, with a total of 209 chapters.
It was written by Aguinaldo Silva with the help of Angela Carneiro, Maria Helena Nascimento, Felipe Miguez, Fernando Rebello and Marilia Garcia. The telenovela was directed by Marcos Schechtman, Alexandre Avancini and Moacyr Góes with the general direction of Ricardo Waddington, Marcos Schechtman and core Ricardo Waddington and Daniel Filho.
It was played by TV Globo International in 2007 with a total of 140 chapters. There were 130 episodes of the version shown on Portuguese television.
The businessman Valdomiro Cerqueira hits a young woman named Inês with his car, causing her to lose her memory. Valdomiro is in debt to the girl, who is alone and can't remember her past, and takes her to live in his house until the situation is stabilized. His family receives her coldly and with suspicion: his wife, Eleonor, and their three daughters, Maria Regina, Maria Antonia, and Márcia Eduarda. And what they feared ends up happening: Valdomiro's involvement with Inês causes his separation from Eleonor and the fury of Maria Regina, who sees Inês as an intruder and a threat to the family fortune. Maria Regina clashes with her father in a bitter struggle for power at “Marmoreal", a company founded and chaired by Valdomiro.