La Dama de Troya
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La Dama de Troya (The Woman from Troya) is a Colombian telenovela (soap opera) that has aired since April 15 2008 on Colombian network RCN. This telenovela is produced by Fox Telecolombia. It was launched to reinforce the prime time schedule on RCN on the same narrative tone that previous RCN successful telenovela Pura Sangre (Pure Blood) involving drama and revenge. With Pura Sangre (Pure Blood), this telenovela gets back to intense drama and revenge story lines, which were missing on Colombian television after the success of popular comedy telenovelas as Betty la fea.
La Dama de Troya since its premiere is aired after RCN News 7:00 p.m. and it is the opening telenovela on RCN's prime time. The novela premieres in the United States on TeleFutura at 10:00 p.m. on Monday, June 2nd, 2008.
[edit] Story
Patricia Cruz (Cristina Umaña) and her husband Humberto Muñoz(Luis Fernando Salas), a young farmer man, several years ago refused to sell their lands to Puerto Dorado's landlord Antonio de la Torre (Rolando Tarajano) for his new project: a modern meat processing center.
Learning that Patricia and Humberto are not selling their lands on good terms, he decides to invade their lands on their very wedding night, threatening them into signing the sale papers. When Humberto refuses to sign anyway, Humberto killed him without any remorse. Antonio using a hood and having Patricia under his control he proceedes to rape her and then to shoot her. Thinking she is dead, Antonio orders her body and her husband's body thrown in the river.
Miraculously, Patricia is not dead and she is rescued by a Pierre who heals her and protects her with help from his friend Jacinta (Adriana Ricardo).
Once she was recovered, Patricia decided to investigate who killed his husband and who raped her (she just remembers a horse chess piece hanging from the raper's neck), but she cannot find out anything, but that her lands belongs to somebody else now.
Having no place to go, Jacinta takes Patricia to live with her and she starts to learn the hard skills of leading cattle and handling horses, which is very common on East Plains in Colombia.
The same day that Patricia decides to come back to her public life in Puerto Dorado she meets Sebastian (Andrés Juan Hernandez) who is just arriving to town after several years studying in Bogotá. Patricia has an argument with Sebastian showing that she is not a stupid and innocent woman she used to be. Astonished by Patricia's disposition and temper, he immediately is deeply attracted to her despite that he is engaged to a frivolous and superficial woman, Nena (Valentina Acosta).
Although she does not recognize it, Patricia has fallen into an attraction to Sebastian ignoring he's the son of the man who raped her and killed her husband several years ago.
[edit] Reception
La Dama de Troya (The Woman from Troya) got low ratings on its first weeks because of the high ratings of Caracol's telenovela "Nuevo Rico, Nuevo Pobre" (New Rich Guy, New Poor Guy), but after the premiere of RCN's telenovela Los Protegidos, the ratings of the telenovela got higher, but it has not gotten the same grade of impact of El Último Matrimonio Feliz.
