Principal photography began on 14 June 2018 and ended in December 2018.[6][7] It premiered on Univision on 29 October 2018, and ended on 11 March 2019.[8] In Mexico the series premiered on Las Estrellas on 5 November 2018, and ended on 3 March 2019.[1]
Plot
The series is a complex story of destinies that intersect when a media mogul, Leon Carvajal, is stabbed on his wedding day, at the same time that an assassin, Macario "El Chino" Valdez, is executed in the electric chair. Leon is reincarnated in the body of El Chino Valdez and, in turn, El Chino's soul ends up in the body of a professor of anthropology, Beltran Camacho, who dies in a car accident. Now, each man will not only have to deal with a new body, but also adapt to a new soul.
Leon now in the body of El Chino leaves El Chino's family and immigrates to Mexico. Leon gets a new identity, Jacobo Reyes, and he begins to work as a driver in his home with the help of his best friend, Camilo. Leon/Jacobo is now trying to figure out who was responsible for his death, he also finds out his new young wife, Lucia, betrayed him with his most loyal friend, Johnny. His kids have problems of their own; his oldest daughter Eva is involved with a Drug Cartel, his son Guille does not want to work in his media company, and his youngest daughter Valentina is discovering her sexuality. He will take this second chance to fix the problems he never knew of. Starting by making Lucia fall in love with him so he could find out the truth about his death.
El Chino, now in Beltran's body, will have the opportunity to have a family. He will learn to be a good father and a good husband. He will also use this new body to his advantage to try to defeat the leaders of the drug cartel he worked for while in his original body. Beltran/Chino will also get help from a rip-off fortune teller woman who will receive powers to talk to the dead.
Trying to figure out why they are back in different bodies is not the only problem. Leon/Jacobo will have to avoid being discovered as El Chino Valdez by the police and the drug cartel. Beltran/Chino will have to find his body, Leon/Jacobo, and try to protect his real family from the cartel whom are after him.
They will begin to meet others who are just like them, reincarnated. They must find out their purpose and they will all be connected through a butterfly tattoo that extends and bleeds when they mess up.
Cast
Main
Michel Brown as Macario "El Chino" Valdés / León Carvajal / Jacobo Reyes
León marries Lucía in a beautiful wedding with their loved ones in attendance. Johny has a secret relationship with Lucia and decides to kill León so he can stay with her. El Chino tells Lupita that he murdered a judge and could be executed in the electric chair. However, death will give León and El Chino a second chance.
León resuscitates in the body of Chino so he is forced to flee from the men of the Alacrán, in the middle of a hurricane. Beltrán dies in an automotive accident, minutes after the soul of El Chino reincarnates in the body of the teacher. Lucía tells an investigator that she knows she is the main suspect in León's death.
León leaves Chino's family and flees to Mexico, after learning that his funeral takes place, observes the suffering of his family. León calls Lucía and tells her that he is alive, but she thinks it is a joke. Lucía is interrogated by a detective about León's death. Lucía arrives at Grupo Carvajal to take the place left by León, but Eva will not allow Lucía to take her father's businesses from the family.
Lucía begins to hallucinate and thinks she sees León telling her that she is a murderer. El Chino is still trying to discover why he is in the body of another man. León looks for an old friend to ask for help and recover his life.
Eva insults Lucía and she slaps her so that she respects her. Johny decides to hire very dangerous people in the company even though León did not trust them.
Guillermo tells Johny that he will stay at the company and that he discovered that someone stole money from his father. Eva goes unauthorized to Lucía's room looking for evidence to blame her for León's death.
León finds out that Lucia will meet Johny and offers to take her, but she refuses. Guillermo goes out to take with a friend, but discovers that he is a bad man and takes him to a store to steal money.
León is very upset to discover that Lucía and Johny are lovers. Guillermo can not stop thinking about the man whose partner shot him and goes to look for him at the hospital.
Chino is determined to travel to Texas to find the money he buried and help Alicia and her son. Camilo finds a woman with the butterfly tattoo, but when he is about to approach her she flees.
Lucía asks Jacobo to go back to work at home and he accepts. Renata accompanies Guillermo to visit the man from the liquor store. Alacrán's men kidnap Eva and take her with him.
Guillermo learns that the man his partner attacked survived the operation, but will not be able to walk again. Johny asks one of Eva's employees to stop supporting her, as he plans to have more control of the company.
Jacobo and Lucía are kidnapped by armed men. Johny becomes nervous when he realizes that the investigator is getting closer and closer to finding León's real murderer.
Eva and Johny do not know what to do to rescue Lucía from the kidnappers. The police track the signal of Lucía's and Jacobo's cell phones to find them.
Valentina is nervous to think that Lucía could be dead. Johny begins to suspect that Jacobo could have something to do with Lucía's kidnapping and asks Camilo where he is from.
Lucía and Jacobo beat up one of their guards and manage to escape. Karla goes to a bar and meets her old husband, she gets very nervous and decides to leave. Lucia and Jacobo kiss for the first time in a river.
Alicia forces Beltrán to go to couple's therapy and he confesses that he is not the man she believes. Johny suspects that Lucía had something to do with Jacobo.
The inspector arrests Jacobo as a suspect in Lucia's kidnapping, but she, Camilo and Mateo defend him. Karla gets a gun and uses it to recover the money that was stolen from her at the casino.
Guillermo kisses Renata at a party. Guillermo arrives drunk at his house and Valentina helps him get to his room. Beltrán is determined to recover the money he stole to help Javier.
Renata is about to confess to Guillermo what happened at the party, but Eva interrupts them. The casino men enter Karla's house and beat her father as revenge for the money she stole.
Armenta says in the interview that he will respect all the journalists of the country. Karla asks Camilo to give her family the money he stole from the casino.
Renata feels very sad to think that Guillermo might be interested in another woman. Jacobo discovers that there are a couple of men looking for him and he turns on an alarm in the building to escape.
Monilla tells Lucía that they suspect that Jacobo could be León's killer. Jacobo tells Karla that he will accompany her to the casino to take revenge on the people who beat Pedro.
Johny goes to look for Lucía at home and almost sees her with Jacobo. Karla goes to the casino determined to earn the money she needs. Lucía can not stop thinking about Jacobo and the moments she has spent with him.
Alacrán's men see Barbara and Beltrán in the Chino's house and spy on them to find out if they can obtain information about him. The casino men decide to torture Karla before killing her, but Camilo manages to save her.
Eva gets upset when she arrives at her siblings house and discovers that they have a party for Guillermo's birthday. Mayela confesses to Guillermo that she is in love with him and kisses him, Renata sees them and becomes sad.
Guillermo tells Jacobo that Toño shot a man in a liquor store. Jacobo learns that Valentina uses drugs. Jacobo discovers that Valentina's friend is Juliana, El Chino's daughter.
Guillermo tells Renata that he knows he kissed her and confesses that Mayela is not his girlfriend. Alacrán's men kidnap Lupita to help them find Chino.
Lucía attends a dinner with Armenta and he tells her that he knows everything about his past. Guillermo sees an interview of Mayela assuring that they are in a relationship and he gets bothered with her.
Jacobo discovers that El Alacran kidnapped Chino's wife and is determined to help her. Johny proposes to Lucía to confess that they have a relationship, but she refuses.
Beltrán tells Barbara that he has to kill Alacrán or he will kill Lupita. Renata decides to resign because she can no longer support the relationship with Guillermo. Bárbara and Beltrán find a man who, like him, is a reborn man.
Valentina teaches Juliana how to swim and kisses her in the pool. Guillermo goes to look for Renata at her home to talk about her resignation and asks her to return to work with him.
Juliana finds out that her mother is badly injured at the hospital and goes to look for her. Camilo and Jacobo meet a woman who says that in her past life she was a man.
Guillermo tells Renata that he is not interested in Mayela and kisses her. Beltrán and Jacobo help Lupe and save her from the men who want to kill her.
Eva decides to move to Lucía's house while hers is being remodeled, but Lucía is not happy with the news. Valentina and Juliana make the assassins believe that Lupe is dead and they save her life.
Mateo tells Valentina that he will post a note in the newspaper saying that Lupe is dead so that Alacrán’s will no longer look for her. Armenta tells Lucía that he wants to spend the night with her.
Camilo and Jacobo talk to a man who claims to have come back to life several times and they discover important things about the reborn. Mateo is with one of Alacrán's hit men to get information about his frauds.
Johny tells Lucía that he thinks she is interested in Jacobo and that is why she defends him all the time. Mayela goes to look for Guillermo at his office and gets very upset when he realizes that he is not there and nobody knows about him.
Jacobo forces Valentina to leave the hospital when she sees Alacrán’s men, but she gets upset because she wants to help Juliana. Juliana meets Beltrán and thanks him for paying Lupe's hospital bill.
Bárbara tells Beltrán that she will leave her store because she believes there are ghosts. Armenta gives Lucía a beautiful car and Eva thinks she has a new love.
Eva finds León's secret hiding place and is determined to do whatever it takes to enter. Jacobo tells Camilo that Valentina kissed Juliana. Guillermo confesses to Valentina that he is in love with Renata.
Valentina confesses to Guillermo that she is in love with Juliana and is worried about what people think. Montilla tells Johny that he believes that the person who ordered León to be killed works for the company.
Guillermo complains to Mayela for telling Eva that he has a relationship with Renata. Jacobo discovers that Lucía and Johny are responsible for León's death.
Guillermo tells Eva that he will leave the company if Renata does not return to work with him. One of Alacrán’s men tells Mateo that they work with León Carvajal's company.
Eva manages to open León's secret hiding place and Lucía gets upset when she learns that they entered without her. Lucho follows Valentina everywhere and sees her kissing Juliana. Eva tells El Alacrán that he has a traitor in his organization.
Guillermo tells Valentina that he will leave the house because of Eva, she tries to convince him to stay, but he refuses. Lucía tells Jacobo that Johny knows they have a relationship and asks him to leave the house so that he does not hurt him.
Johny goes to look for Jacobo at Camilo's house and demands that he leave the country. Guillermo moves to Renata's house, but things do not go as he expects.
Johny follows Jacobo and discovers that he has a family. Silvina tells Lucía that she thinks Jacobo has something to do with León's death, but she does not believe her.
Johny tells Lucía that Jacobo has a family and shows her the photos to prove it. Eva demands Juliana to get away from Valentina and forbids her from entering any of her properties.
Armenta and his men kidnap Valentina to threaten Lucía and forcibly enter her house. Guillermo and Renata begin to have many problems living together, since he is used to another lifestyle.
Eva asks Alacrán to guarantee Valentina's safety, but he refuses. The police arrive at the Carvajal mansion to save Lucía and Valentina. Jacobo kills Armenta before he hurts Valentina.
Lupita tells Juliana that the person that is in El Chino's body is not her dad and she looks for him to know the truth. Johny prevents Lucía from discovering which hospital Jacobo is in. Valentina is emotionally affected by Armenta's attack.
Jacobo's face is exposed on television and both Beltrán and El Alacrán identify him as El Chino. Camilo offers Valentina his help to overcome her trauma. Fabián decides to face El Chino by himself and heads to the hospital.
Valentina and Juliana interrogate Camilo about his relationship with Jacobo, since they know he is a hit man. Fabián tries to assassinate Jacobo, but Beltrán defends him.
Lupita sees Juliana kissing Valentina and gets upset, because she refuses to believe that her daughter is in love with a woman. Mateo hits Johny and blames him for Susana's death.
Eva blames Lucía for the death of her father and all the misfortunes that her family suffers, requires her to leave the house, but she refuses. The police arrest Guillermo for the assault at the liquor store.
Lucía confesses to Silvina that she is in love with Jacobo, but she will do anything to send him to prison. Jacobo and Barbara dig up León’s coffin and discover that it is empty.
Eva discovers that she is pregnant and does not know who the father of the baby is. Camilo tells Montilla the whole truth about Jacobo, but he does not believe him. El Alacrán kidnaps Eva outside the police offices.
Lucía discovers that Jacobo sent the anonymous letters attacking her and Johny. Lucho discovers that Sergio was intimate with Juliana, he asks him not to tell anyone.
Eva confesses to El Alacrán that she does not want to have children, but he threatens her and tells her that he wants to be the official father of the baby. Jacobo discovers that Beltrán plans to deliver him to El Alacrán to save Juliana.
Sergio looks for Valentina to inform her that Juliana was kidnapped even though she does not want to know anything about him. Alicia goes to find a woman who claims to be transmigrated and thus investigate the situation that Beltrán is living.
Jacobo and Beltrán are determined to save Juliana and make a plan to deceive El Alacrán. Lucho tries to defend Lupita and Valentina from the Alacrán's men and they assassinate him.
Mateo confesses to Camilo that Eva is laundering money with drug dealers. Valentina tells Guillermo that she feels guilty for Lucho’s death, because she asked him to go find Juliana.
Eva goes to look for El Alacrán in his hiding place, Mateo follows her and discovers that he is her lover. Renata sees Guillermo kissing Mayela and decides to leave the mansion, but he tries to make her change her mind.
In his desperate effort to try to correct Eva's mistake, since the company would be exposed, Jacobo reveals to Mateo that he is León Carvajal. Mateo full of anger and pain, wants Eva to sink. Candela tells Lucía that she has cancer to prevent from making her leave her home.
After listening to Lucía's voice message, Jacobo awaits her decision. Guille and Renata visit the Castillo's, there they realize that they already knew that Guille was one of the assailants, but they expected him to confess. Fabricio is about to kill Jacobo, but Lucía defends him. Beltrán tries to abuse Lupita and Juliana hits him with a bottle.
Eva apologizes to Mateo, but he is determined to report her. Lucía tells Johny that Jacobo knows that they are responsible for the murder of León Carvajal.
Eva asks El Alacrán not to kill Mateo, but he is determined to get rid of him. Jacobo talks to Guillermo to make him understand that he is León Carvajal. Candela confesses to Lucía that she is not sick.
Jacobo looks for Eva and Valentina and confesses that he is León, but they do not believe him. Mateo informs Montilla that El Alacrán's men follow him, but they manage to catch him before he can help him.
El Alacrán tells Mateo that if he does not withdraw the accusation against Eva, he will kill her. Montilla discovers that Susana's killer is Johny and goes to look for him at his house. Johny goes to look for Lucía at León’s house, but she tells him that she will not escape with him. Valentina comes out and confesses her love for Juliana in a live TV interview. Eva discovers that Lucía is responsible for León’s death. Beltrán confesses to Lupita and Alicia that he is in love with both of them.
After the success of the lesbian couple of the series composed of Macarena Achaga and Bárbara López, in November 2019 Televisa confirmed that on 8 November 2019 a special edition entitled Juliantina would be released through its website, which It is composed of 19 episodes, and is remastered with the best telenovela scenes.[179][180][181]
Episodes
No.
Title
Original air date
Length (minutes)
1
"Dos años atrás"
8 November 2019 (2019-11-08)
37:09
2
"¡Todos los hombres son de flojera!"
8 November 2019 (2019-11-08)
34:59
3
"Cita imperfecta"
8 November 2019 (2019-11-08)
38:05
4
"Nunca he estado enamorada"
8 November 2019 (2019-11-08)
35:38
5
"Aprendiendo a bailar"
8 November 2019 (2019-11-08)
37:48
6
"La fiesta"
8 November 2019 (2019-11-08)
34:27
7
"Nadie me va a alejar de ti"
8 November 2019 (2019-11-08)
39:07
8
"¡El primer beso!"
8 November 2019 (2019-11-08)
36:37
9
"Me encantas"
8 November 2019 (2019-11-08)
36:58
10
"Todo es mejor desde que tú estás en mi vida"
8 November 2019 (2019-11-08)
41:01
11
"Estoy enamorada de una chica"
8 November 2019 (2019-11-08)
36:39
12
"El pacto de Juliantina"
8 November 2019 (2019-11-08)
37:07
13
"El secuestro"
8 November 2019 (2019-11-08)
39:27
14
"Mi príncipe azul"
8 November 2019 (2019-11-08)
40:09
15
"Traicioné a Valentina"
8 November 2019 (2019-11-08)
41:32
16
"¿Juliana estás bien?"
8 November 2019 (2019-11-08)
40:00
17
"Voy a estar aquí para lo que necesites"
8 November 2019 (2019-11-08)
38:41
18
"Apoyar a la familia"
8 November 2019 (2019-11-08)
37:28
19
"Capítulo final: Estábamos destinada a conocernos"
8 November 2019 (2019-11-08)
25:45
Future
On 20 December 2019, producer Billy Rovzar and Carlos Bardasano confirmed that a film based on the two characters of Bárbara López and Macarena Achaga for Videocine would be made.[182] It was also confirmed that a series based on the two characters written by Leonardo Padrón, possibly entitled Las Juliantinas, was being written.[182]
