Luz y sombra (English title: Light and shadow) is a Mexican telenovela produced by Gonzalo Martínez Ortega for Televisa in 1989.
Thalía and Alberto Mayagoitía starred as protagonists, while Enrique Álvarez Félix starred as main antagonist.
Plot
Alma and José are two young people who try to succeed and achieve their goals in life, in spite of the odds and difficult circumstances they were born into, surrounded by poverty, economic disparity, homeless street children and substance abusers.
Alma lives with her mother Mercedes, who led her daughter to believe that her father Eusebio died, but the truth is that he left them long ago and now lives with another woman. José, meanwhile, is a boy who dreams of being a great Olympic swimmer, just as Alma dreams of becoming a famous ballerina.
Despite the hostilities they are forced to endure daily, Alma and Joseph don't stop trying to succeed and achieve their dreams, even if they have to go through misfortunes and sufferings.
Cast
Thalía as Alma Suárez
as José Guerra
Enrique Álvarez Félix as Juan Guerra
as Lucía
Eric del Castillo
Delia Casanova as Mercedes "Meche" de Suárez
Carlos Bracho as Ricardo Saucedo
Blanca Sánchez as Aurora Linares de Guerra
Socorro Bonilla as Leticia
Quintín Bulnes as Guido
as Satanás
Mario León as Simón
Roberto Sosa as Sergio Luna
Fabián as El Zorra
as Marcela
as Caridad "Cari" Uriel Chávez as Tomás Jaime Lozano Rosita Arenas as Sra. Orozco as Eusebio Suárez as El Costeño Holda Ramírez as Mary Tere Antua Terrazas as Toño Gustavo Navarro as Gustavo as El Viborín Eva Prado as Cecilia José Luis Llamas as Urbano Alejandrina Fuentes as Gela