Enter, REBECA

About three weeks ago, the popular telenovela REBECA began airing on TV3 and MITV. Because of the popular clamor by our readers, we would begin the episode summaries or snippets of this soap opera. Thanks to my good friend, Bola Oluyemi whose in-depth telenovela research, discovered the story, in full, for us.

If we can complete the snippets in one week, (a miracle!), then we would have succeeded in providing a platform of entertainment for our community of readers on this blog.

It is the story of a poor 20-year old girl, Rebeca Linares, who had the misfortune to be born by emotionally reckless parents- Maltide and Adalberto. Right from conception, Adalberto became a run-away father. He doubted the his paternity over that pregnancy, abandoned Maltide Linares and went to marry a supposedly rich lady- Regina Montalbán. For twenty years, he had neither peace nor joy, because his marriage to Regina was barren. He then began a painful retreat and search, for what he threw away two decades ago- his unknown daughter and Maltide, his lover.

Rebeca met and fell in love with a young rich 25-year old man, Eduardo Montalbán, whom she shared the same birthday with. Attractive Rebeca Linares was the magnetic object of adoration for rich widower and father of Eduardo, Sergio Montalbán. So, the stage was set for romantic intrigues between father and son for the love of the same girl.

Sergio won the first round, as he succeeded in using the vulnerable pecuniary circumstances of Rebeca to get her into marrying him. But Sergio had enough 'skeletons in his wardrobe' to make that marriage awful for him. The trio of, his bitter housemaid and mother of one of his two children,- Sara, his sister- Regina and his daughter Carolina made his life and happiness in marriage to Rebeca Linares a woeful one.

How would you feel if your father 'snatched' your fiancee and married her, while you live under the same roof with them? That is part of the mystery questions and emotional agonies that this telenovela would seek to answer and assuage in the next few days of posting it.

Stay with me as I do a quick preview of the actors and actresses of REBECA, after which we would launch, full scale, into publishing the full story of REBECA Linares.