Joรฃo Marcelo's return awakens hope on Isabel that she might leave the soap opera, but he has a surprise: Isadora, his French fiancรฉe. On the network, Grazi is feeling the increased weight of shooting and pressures Lauro into making Isadora the new protagonist. Isabel realizes that she's being excluded from the main plot and becomes closer to Chiara, in order to win Joรฃo Marcelo back.