Bruno Peixoto

Malhação is a Brazilian television series for the teenage audience. The soap started in 1995, and was set in a fictional Gym Club called Malhação on Barra da Tijuca, Rio de Janeiro. Through the years the location varied slightly. Although the name of the soap remains the same, it is now set in the Múltipla Escolha High School.

Lia loses her mother in the birth of her younger sister, Rachel. She is mistreated by her stepmother and is delivered by her father in marriage to Jacob, who also betrothed Rachel. From this union, Joseph is born.

A shy student suddenly becomes the center of attention when she wins a huge birthday party that she never asked for.

When Maurício becomes a student at a top medical school, he becomes obsessed with a mystery linked to the dead bodies used for dissection.