Amor Maior (More Than Love) is a Portuguese telenovela which began airing on SIC on 12 September 2016 and ending on 30 September 2017.
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Plot
Season One
Out of love for her brothers, Clara will have to face Francisca, her stepmother, and sacrifice the passion of a life. Francisca always wanted the life and fortune that her half-sister, Laura, had. She ordered her killed, married her husband, and adopted the younger stepdaughters.
Now plans to kill her husband, but Clara, Laura's eldest daughter, finds out and tries to tell her family. No one believes in Clara and her father ends up driving her and his son, Afonso, out of the house.
At the same time, they struggle to work with Paulo (known as "Lobo" which translates to "Wolf"), a criminal who is making them work for him as Afonso's girlfriend lost drugs that she was selling for "Lobo". Afonso broke up with her right after, however "Lobo" never made his girlfriend work for him only Afonso and his sister Clara. However "Lobo" begins to see Clara with other eyes, falling in love with her. Clara faces a problem as she can not get custody of her sisters, Daniela and Marta, but she promised to make everything to protect them. Francisca does not facilitate the life of Clara because she falls in love with her beloved, Manel, finishing these by having an affair. But when Manel realizes that Francisca is not who he thinks, it ends soon with their relationship and goes to Clara. Clara and Manel live a beautiful love story.
Francisca, however, has not stopped loving Manel since the first day she had with him. So this will make Clara's life a living hell and do everything to separate them. Manel even knowing that Francisca is Clara's stepmother, continues with this ending even by marrying her. However, when Francisca was having an affair with Manel, she was married to Eduardo (biological father of Clara, Marta, Daniela and Afonso), and since she wanted to go with Manel and receive his inheritance, she decided to kill him at the party. Marta's birthday.
This is normal, this one stayed in the tracks because the father died at his own party. Daniela, was the only person who had ever arrived at the compound (a terrace in Alfama). As soon as she got there, Francisca was talking to her father. This one (Francisca) decided that it was a good time for her husband to die.
He threw him on the terrace and he died. Daniela, who was in the room, was shocked by what had happened. Francisca, only later did she realize that her husband had died in the presence of Daniela. From this moment, Francisca, afraid that Daniela "opened her mouth" began to give her pills to silence her and to say nothing to the authorities. Daniela is being manipulated by Francisca, and when someone asks her who killed Eduardo, she accuses Clara to Francisca.
Clara and Manel are married but Francisca does not give up on separating them, the villain discovers that his nephew Ricardo has a video of the robbery to the museum where Carlos Paiva died. The villain threatens to tell everyone that Ricardo is homosexual if she does not receive the video. Ricardo gives in to his aunt's blackmail and hands her the video. Francisca made a trip to São Tomé, where Clara and Manel were spending their honeymoon, and threatened the stepdaughter to tell Manel that he participated in the robbery of the museum and to show him the images and the police. Clara gives in and tells Manel that she was forced by the Wolf to make the assault. Manel is disillusioned with Clara and does not forgive her. Which leaves Francisca satisfied.
The villain continues to drug Daniela and turns her against the brothers. Clara asks for help to Nina, the woman who helped Daniela when she was missing, to help her gain the confidence of the girl again and Nina accepts. Daniela is very happy to see Nina and the bitch Zuzu and is happier when Nina lets her stay with the dog. When Marta tells Francisca about the judge, Francisca full of rage kills Zuzu, which leaves Daniela behind. The villain threatens Marta to do the same to a person if she goes on to say that she is a lousy mother. Francisca loses custody of Marta but stays with Daniela, who speaks well of her (because she does not want the stepmother to hurt her brothers). Francisca threatens Clara, Afonso and Marta that they will not see Daniela again.
Telmo, still feeling betrayed by Francisca to have a son who is also from Manel, goes to the palace and finds Clara to tell him the whole truth about Francisca. Telmo tells Clara that Francisca was pushing Eduardo off the terrace of the Marta party, and when Daniela was missing, Francisca planned to kidnap her. Telmo also reveals that it was Francisca who had Laura killed. Clara asks Telmo to testify against Francisca for her to pay for everything she did, but Telmo refuses because if Francisca is arrested, he goes with her. Telmo asks Clara to arrange evidence, she will have to prove that Francisca had an affair with Eduardo before Laura left for Sao Tome and died. The death of Laura commissioned by Francisca leaves Afonso so motivated to catch Francisca and kill her.
Manel and Clara go alone to the farm of Clara's family. On the way they agree that they will have to have a serious conversation after being able to incriminate Francisca. When they get there, Clara sees Lobo's car and is furious, thinking that this one ended with Francisca, against her will. Manel, for his part, is worried about his baby.
Without anyone knowing, Afonso is there with Lobo and they both wear the same monkey suits and put on masks. Surprised Francisca who is scared. Wolf threatens her but Afonso asks him to shoot. Clara and Manel appear and this one orders the hooded ones to drop the arms. Manel shoots Afonso
Season Two
When Manel removes Afonso's mask, Clara is in shock and Manel is taken aback. Wolf flees from there while Manel asks Francisca for help. She examines the stepson and informs Manel and Clara that they have to take him to the hospital immediately, or he will not survive. Manel picks it up and takes it to the car.
Francisca informs Pilar of what happened. She is worried that her nephew was shot.
Manel and Clara arrive with Afonso to the hospital and this one is taken, immediately, to the operative block. Manel tries to apologize but Clara only thinks about her brother.
Pilar arrives at the hospital and hugs Clara. They still do not know anything about Afonso. Pilar feels responsible for the fact that the nephew has reached that point of revolt. Manel approaches and feels much guilty but still wants to combine the testimony with Clara to avoid that Afonso is accused of attempted murder.
Afonso almost died in the operation, Afonso is in an induced coma.
Francisca returns to Lisbon and tells Teresa that there was an accident on the farm and that Afonso was shot. Teresa and Daniela get very agitated. Daniela loses her temper and explodes, accusing Francisca of having failed what she promised, of not doing any of her brothers any harm. Teresa is strange in her behavior and defends the granddaughter of her daughter's manipulations.
Manel ventured with Pilar who shot Afonso thinking that it was Wolf, admitting his desire for revenge. Pilar fears Afonso will be arrested after recovering. Jorge appears and does not bring good news, the state of Afonso is critical because he lost a lot of blood.
Manel gives his testimony to a PSP agent. It does not reveal that Clara was present nor that Afonso was armed. He claims that he thought it was Telmo and that he fired to defend a defenseless civilian. After the agent left, Manel ventured with Pilar who hated to have to lie but did it for Afonso.



