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Owners and tenants of the six apartments and the commercial premises in the building.

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    Porter's lodge 

Emilio Delgado Martín

Played by: Fernando Tejero

The building's doorman. A simple and uneducated man, his only goal in life is to have a peaceful life. Unfortunately, in addition to having to deal with the crazy residents of Desengano 21, he begins to have a love-hate relationship with one of the residents, Belén. And everything gets worse when his father, Mariano, comes to live with him.


  • Book Dumb: When Emilio decides to take a shot at studying in college, he starts with José Miguel's school books and is puzzled by the fact that the unknown quantities in equations are represented with letters: that's mixing Language and Maths to him! He only passes the access test by cheating so blatantly that he has to capitalize on the professor not knowing his name to get in, and unsurprisingly ends up flunking out.
  • Character Catchphrase: "¡Un poquito de por favor!" ("A little bit of please!").
  • Heterosexual Life-Partners: With Juan, whom he respects and considers a much better father figure than Mariano (which is not difficult).
  • Love Triangle: With Belén and Carlos in Season 1. Then, with Belén (again) and Rocio in Season 2. And then in Season 3, with Belén (yes, again) and Carmen.
  • Refuge in Audacity: Emilio is caught cheating in the university access exam — the headset through which Juan Cuesta fed him the answers pretty much falls under the Incredibly Obvious Bug category — and the professor supervising the exam warns him that he will be disqualified for it. Then Emilio asks if the professor knows who he is. When the teacher says no, Emilo puts his test in the middle of other tests that had already been delivered, and runs away. It ends up working.
  • Running Gag: If Belén and Emilio are bickering, a Gilligan Cut to them smoking post-intercourse cigarettes is very likely.
  • Smoking Hot Sex: Emilio and Belén are seen like this after most of their Gilligan Cuts. It even gets lampshaded on an episode when smoking is banned in the building and Emilio claims to miss the post-sex cigarette.

Mariano Delgado

Played by: Eduardo Gómez

Emilio's father. A lazy, despicable man who prefers to come up with schemes rather than work honestly. After some recurring appearances in the first half of Season 1, Mariano is kicked out of the house by his wife and starts to live permanently with Emilio, much to the displeasure of the other tenants and especially Emilio himself.


  • Ascended Extra: Mariano had minor appearances in the first season before moving into the building and becoming regular.
  • Dirty Old Man: He's much older than every tenant other than those of apartment 1-A, but still tries every once in a while to flirt with several female tenants, without much success.
  • Enter Stage Window: Mariano occasionally uses a ladder to climb to the window of the first floor.
  • Naked People Are Funny: Mariano loves to be naked in the courtyard of the building, much to the displeasure of the other tenants.

    1-A 

Vicenta Benito

Played by: Gemma Cuervo

The elderly owner of apartment 1-A, who lives there with her sister Marisa and (from season 2) Concha.


  • Abhorrent Admirer: To Andrés, who is far younger than her, finds her personality annoying, and is therefore completely uninterested in her advances.
  • Cloudcuckoolander: She often comes across as eccentric and naive.
  • Gossipy Hens: One of the few character traits she shares with her sister Marisa. There's a good reason her apartment is Radio Patio's de facto headquarters.
  • Virgin-Shaming: Marisa mocks her over having remained single and virgin for her entire life.

Marisa Benito

Played by: Mariví Bilbao

Vicenta's sister, who lives with her in the 1-A.


  • Cloudcuckoolander's Minder: Takes this role when Vicenta's mind starts to wander too far away from reality.
  • Cool Old Lady: A self-professed anarchist, with a juvenile mindset and notably raunchy.

Concha de la Fuente

Played by: Emma Penella

Armando's mother, who befriends Marisa and Vicenta and moves into the 1-A with them after her son sells the 2-B. Also the owner of apartment 3-B until Belén bought it from her.


  • Grumpy Old Woman: Her default mood is grumpy and angry.
  • Sitcom Arch-Nemesis: To Juan. Many of the insults hurled at him during community meetings come from her (including her signature line "Leave, Mr. Cuesta, leave!").
  • The Scrooge: She repeatedly holds off on paying her community fees because she doesn't see anything get fixed (to which Mauri once retorts that it's harder to fix things when fees aren't being paid), refuses to pay to fix appliances in the 3-B, and frequently tries to hike Belén's rent price on a whim.

    1-B 

Mauricio "Mauri" Hidalgo

Played by: Luis Merlo

A hotheaded, homosexual journalist who is the co-owner of apartment 1-B.


  • All Gays Love Theater: Mauri is homosexual and known to be an opera aficionado.
  • Berserk Button: He despises any sort of homophobia and discrimination that could result from it. He wrote a particularly vitriolic column against Fernando's former firm when they sacked him shortly after he came out (which led to the clarification that the firing letter was an ill-timed prank from a coworker, but Fernando ends up quitting anyway after a talk to his boss).
  • Embarrassing First Name: He thinks his parents ruined his life by naming him Mauricio.

Fernando Navarro

Played by: Adrià Collado

Mauri's longtime boyfriend, a lawyer who temporarily left the building to work in London, eventually returning and reuniting with Mauri.


  • Gayngst: He spends most of the first season agonizing at the possibility of being outed, telling Mauri to watch his mannerisms. Once he comes out to his co-workers, he quits after his boss tells him he doesn't consider him a "normal" person because of being homosexual.
  • Put on a Bus: He spends most of the second season working abroad in London.

    2-A 

Juan Cuesta

Played by: José Luis Gil

A high school teacher who is also the long-serving president of the community, and takes the latter job a little bit too seriously.


  • Job's Only Volunteer: Most of the time he is the only owner actually interested in being community president.
  • No-Respect Guy: Juan is under his overbearing wife's control, his children and students couldn't care less about him, and the neighbors only let him be community president because nobody else wants the job. The only person who seems to have any respect for him is Emilio.
  • Only Sane Man: Played with. It is true that he is (or at least tries to be) the most responsible and serious person in the condominium, which makes sense considering that he is the leader of the community. Unfortunately, he is weak-willed and easily persuaded or pressured by the other neighbors into helping with whatever Zany Scheme is going on at the moment.
  • Permanent Elected Official: Played with. At the start of the series he has been serving as president and running unopposed for well over a decade, and while he does get removed from his position a few times, he is often quickly reinstated.
  • Two-Teacher School: We know he is a teacher, but what subject does he exactly teach varies depending on the episode. At first he is said to be the gym teacher, later he is shown giving a math class.

José Miguel "Josemi" Cuesta

Played by: Eduardo García

Juan and Paloma's youngest son, who has the IQ of a genius but is a slacker at school.


  • Character Catchphrase: "Bueno, pero tranquilito/a, ¿eh?" ("Fine, but take it easy, will you?") is his usual response to his parents attempting to ground him.
  • Troubling Unchildlike Behavior: He's about 12 at the start of the show, but has no trouble admitting that he thinks Lucía is hot, and his answer to Juan's attempt to have The Talk with him is "Sure, what do you want to know?".

Natalia Cuesta

Played by: Sofía Nieto

Juan and Paloma's older daughter.


  • Bratty Teenage Daughter: She's disobedient, more focused on getting guys and partying than in studying, and overall the bane of her parents' existence.
  • Fille Fatale: She's 17 at the start of the show, but that doesn't stop her from flirting with older characters, with Roberto (implied to be in his early thirties) being her primary target.

Isabel Ruiz

Played by: Isabel Ordaz

Andrés' wife, she moves with him and their children to flat 2-B at the beginning of the second season. In the third season, she falls in love with Juan Cuesta, gets divorced and starts living with Juan. A former nurse, Isabel is a very eccentric woman, even by the building's "normal" standards.


  • Cloudcuckoolander: She is hypochondriac, neurotic and addicted to "medicinal herbs", which only highlights her eccentricity even more.
  • The Gambling Addict: She develops gambling issues twice during the show, first in bingo and then in the slot machine Mauri installs in the entranceway.

    2-B 

Higinio Heredia

Played by: Ricardo Arroyo

A construction worker who moves to the 2-B with his family in the final season.


  • Ascended Extra: He was a recurring character before moving in.
  • Awful Wedded Life: His wife, and particularly her compulsive furniture shopping, is a great source of annoyance for him.
  • Deadpan Snarker: Known for his dry wit and snarky responses when he's irritated.
  • Puppet King: Rafael, through Loophole Abuse, appoints him president of the community to get rid of Juan.

Mamen García

Played by: Emma Ozores

Higinio's wife.


  • Retail Therapy: She has a habit of buying all sorts of furniture on a whim, which annoys Higinio to no end.
  • Sitcom Arch-Nemesis: Becomes this to the Cuestas after catching Candela kissing Pablo and thinking he's taking advantage of her.
  • Stage Mom: To Candela, whom she constantly forces to audition for TV commercials.

Candela Heredia

Played by: Denise Maestre

Higinio and Mamen's youngest daughter.


    3-A 

Rafael Álvarez

Played by: Nicolás Dueñas

Lucía's father, the CEO of a real estate agency who moves into her apartment after she leaves the building while his mansion is undergoing renovations.


  • Corrupt Corporate Executive: He is seen as a rather shady CEO, who has no qualms about bribing mayors and town councillors.
  • Not Me This Time: After having tried on several occasions to force the neighbors to sell him their apartments, they suspect him over the termites attacking the building in the series finale, but he clarifies that he has nothing to do with that.
  • Pragmatic Villainy: In the series finale, he buys all of the other apartments not because he has any interest in helping the soon-to-be homeless neighbors out, but because, if he owns the entire building at the time of its impending demolition, he can finally replace it with an office complex as he has wanted to do for most of the show's run.
  • Screw the Rules, I Have Money!: As you'd expect from a Corrupt Corporate Executive, he frequently bribes authorities to get his way.

Moisés

Played by: Joan Domínguez

Rafael's butler, who accompanies his boss when he moves into the 3-A.


  • The Stoic: Never shows any kind of emotion. Rafael repeatedly tells him jokes to make him laugh, only to be met with a deadpan reaction and a response along the lines of "I got it, sir. Another pun."

    3-B 

Belén López Vázquez

Played by: Malena Alterio

Resident in the 3-B for the duration of the series, first renting the apartment to Concha, later as an owner after buying it from her. She is an unlucky woman both in her professional life (always ending up with a different job in each episode) and in her love life. She also has an intermittent relationship with Emilio.


  • Born Unlucky: She is insecure, moody, bitter, envious and admits to being a loser. She fails both in her attempts to have an honest job and in her devious schemes.
  • Butt-Monkey: Even by typical show standards, it seems that fate simply loves to make Belén's life hell. Her roommate and best friend is a snobbish, vain woman who loves to humiliate her, her mother loves to criticize her, Emilio is the closest thing she has to a great love, and she never gets a job.
  • Dating Service Disaster: When she signs up in a matchmaking service, she ends up having a string of painful dates with really weird and/or desperate men, and even one with Mariano, who had completely forged his dating profile.
  • Puppet King: Marisa, Concha and Vicenta rope her into running for president so they can run the community behind the scenes. She eventually breaks away from them.
  • Widowed at the Wedding: When she marries the much older Pedro, he dies from a heart attack on their wedding night.

Beatriz "Bea" Villarejo

Played by: Eva Isanta

A lesbian woman who first moves into the building as Mauri's roommate at the 1-B when he's trying to cope with being separated from Fernando. She has a child with Mauri through artificial insemination, and lives in all three apartments of the 'B' half of the building at different points of the series.


  • Clingy Jealous Girl: She admits she becomes jealous of Ana because of all the attention she still gets from men after coming out.
  • Incompatible Orientation:
    • She quickly develops a crush on Lucía, who is straight. They manage to remain on friendly terms in spite of it.
    • Later subverted with Ana, who was at first introduced as a New Old Flame for Roberto and rejecting Bea's advances because of being straight, but eventually Bea becomes her Closet Key and they start a relationship.
  • Only Sane Woman: Bea is one of the least eccentric characters on the series, and most of her punchlines are reactions to the wackiness going on around her.

Ana

Played by: Vanesa Romero

A childhood friend of Roberto who moves into the 3-B shortly before his wedding with Lucía, and later becomes Bea's girlfriend.


  • New Old Flame: She's at first set up to be this for Roberto, as she gleefully recounts their beach days together when they were kids, quickly shows that she's attracted to him, and he skips his bachelor party to hang out with her. However, Roberto ends up wasting time deciding between Lucía and her, and she later moves on with Bea.

    Attic residents 

Paco

Played by: Guillermo Ortega

An amateur filmmaker and the clerk at the video rental club, known for his rather eccentric tastes in cinema. After separating from his wife, Lourdes, in the final season, he moves into the attic.


  • Affectionate Nickname: Emilio refers to him by the diminutive "Paquito".
  • Ascended Extra: At first merely a bit character, Paco slowly got more character depth and screentime as the show progressed.
  • Awful Wedded Life: After he marries Lourdes, his marriage is shown to be less than ideal, loudly bickering with her over the phone on occasion. He ends up hooking up with Belén.
  • Everyone Is Jesus in Purgatory: In-universe, he tends to interpret movies in rather odd ways. For example, he thinks Alien is one of the greatest romance movies of all time.
  • Lost in Character: Part of the reason why Carlos is reluctant about doing themed weeks at the video club is Paco's tendency to fall into this when he puts a costume on. For example, the time he annoyed a customer by doing a Groucho Marx routine while dressed as him.
  • Virgin-Shaming: Victim of this early in the series, as the rest of the "Wise Men Council" and even the tenants mock him over still being a virgin (even the underaged José Miguel gets in on it for some reason), to the point of (fruitlessly) hiring a hooker for him so he can have his first time.

Pablo Guerra

Played by: Elio González

Andrés and Isabel's youngest son, who moves with his father into the attic and stays there when he leaves the building.


  • Age-Gap Romance: Towards the end of the series, he enters a relationship with Marta, who is probably twice his age.
  • Friend Versus Lover: His breakup with Marta is the result of this situation, as she forces him to choose between her and Paco when the latter moves into the attic with him.

    Former residents 

Lucía Álvarez Muñoz

Played by: María Adánez

The first resident at 3-A. Lucía is the daughter of a wealthy businessman. She is a nice woman but also spoiled for having lived her whole life in comfort, and she is easily irritated when things don't go her way... which is constantly happening in Desengaño 21. She has a love triangle with Roberto and Carlos.


  • Dating What Daddy Hates: Out of the three boyfriends Lucía has over the course of the series, Carlos is the only one her father has any semblance of appreciation for. Rafael dislikes Roberto and hates Yago's guts.
  • Heartbreak and Ice Cream: She's seen coping with romantic breakups by eating ice cream.
  • Not So Above It All: She starts out as the building's Only Sane Woman upon moving in, but winds up playing along with the neighbors' hijinks every now and then, for example referring to Isabel and Nieves by the nicknames given to them by the Radio Patio trio, or accessing the community's bank account (the numbers of which she remembers from her short stint as president) to buy a couch to replace the bench next to the building's entrance after it is removed, so they can continue to see the couple meeting there. She also gives in and invites them to her wedding with Roberto, "because you're going anyway and it's no use fighting the elements".
  • Only Sane Woman: She starts the series that way, but slowly becomes infected by the craziness of their neighbors. As of Season 3, she becomes a woman who fails at work and in love, not unlike Belen.
  • Put on a Bus: She leaves the apartment at the end of Season 4 to start a new life working for an NGO in Somalia.
  • Third-Option Love Interest: Lucía's Love Triangle with Roberto and Carlos is never resolved, as she instead chooses Yago over them.
  • Uptown Girl: Her relationship with Roberto has undertones of this; Lucía comes from a wealthy family, Roberto from a more humble one.

Paloma Hurtado

Played by: Loles León

Juan Cuesta's wife and co-owner of the 2-A. She falls into a coma at the end of season 2, and is Killed Off for Real later on.


  • Behind Every Great Man: Her self-assigned role in Juan's life, pushing him to continue pursuing the building's presidency.
  • Character Catchphrase: "¡Y punto en boca!" ("Period!"), "¡Hombre ya!" (akin to "Come on now!"), "[something] aquí no, ¿eh, Juan? ¡[something] aquí, no!" ("No [something] here, huh, Juan? No [something] here!"). After her coma, the neighbors refer to those phrases as "Palomadas" (which in the context is similar to saying "Paloma-isms") on the rare occasions Juan catches himself dropping them.
  • The Friend Nobody Likes: Other than her husband (and even he had his limits), nobody in the building seemed to have any love for Paloma, who was seen as bossy, hotheaded and something of a Control Freak.
  • Giftedly Bad: She believed herself to have great skill and taste in fashion, but her designs were outright atrocious.
  • The Maiden Name Debate: Played with. Although it's not customary in Spain for women to change their surname upon marrying, Paloma sometimes introduced herself using her husband's surname for no clear reason.
  • Sitcom Arch-Nemesis: She becomes Lucía's sworn enemy out of jealousy.

Alicia Sanz

Played by: Laura Pamplona

Belén's former roommate at the 3-B, an aspiring actress with far more beauty and ego than talent.


  • Incompatible Orientation: During the first season she has a crush on Fernando, who is homosexual and most of the time barely even notices her advances.
  • In-Universe Factoid Failure: When she's about to leave the building to move to the US with Ricardo, she talks to Belén about all the great actresses that have gone to Los Angeles to make it big, prompting Ricardo to reply that it's New York they are moving to. Alicia sees no problem with it because she thinks the two cities are "next to each other", but Ricardo correctly points out that they are 2,400 miles apart.
  • Ladykiller in Love: Gender-inverted. She was a major flirt before meeting Ricardo, but eventually falls in love with him, and when he has to move to the United States, she soon decides to go with him.
  • Ms. Fanservice: Due to her flirty personality, she tends to wear skimpy clothes.
  • Put on a Bus: Moves with her boyfriend Ricardo to New York.
  • Really Gets Around: Implied. She claims that 99% of men want to sleep with her, to which Belén retorts 50% do.
  • Small Name, Big Ego: Believes herself to be the next Penélope Cruz, but the one gig she gets as an actress is in a cringeworthy sausage commercial.

Armando Rubio

Played by: Joseba Apaolaza

Concha's son, and owner of the 2-B at the start of the show. A divorced father of two who shares custody of his children with his ex-wife.


  • Casanova Wannabe: He is often seen bringing women home with him late at night, but most of them run away the second they learn he lives with his mother and one of his children.
  • Put on a Bus: He sells the apartment and moves out at some point between the first and second seasons, never to be seen in the building again.

Carlos de Haro

Played by: Diego Martín

A childhood friend and former boyfriend of Lucía, who also comes from a wealthy family and primarily lives off his parents' money.


  • Costume Copycat: When he starts pondering the possibility that he could be gay and asks Mauri for advice, he visits Mauri dressed exactly like him, much to the latter's annoyance.
    Mauri: Carlos, if you want to come out of the closet, come out, but don't take my clothes!
  • Kissing Under the Influence: Exaggerated. He has a child with Alba as a result of a drunken one-night stand on New Year's Eve.
  • Put on a Bus: Realizing that there's no chance he will ever get Lucía back, he checks into a depression clinic and sells both the 2-B and the video club.
  • Screw the Rules, I Have Money!: Being born into wealth, Carlos indulges into this every once in a while. When Lucía's restaurant reopens after having had its license revoked a few episodes earlier, he complains about having had to bribe officials to get the license back; and during his short-lived stint as community president, he disregards the usual procedure for split contributions and buys fancy stuff for the building out of his own pocket in order to keep the neighbors on his side.
    Juan: Can't you see he's trying to buy your will?
    Marisa: As long as he pays well for it...!
  • Serial Romeo: Downplayed. Even in spite of his undying crush on ex-girlfriend Lucía, he's incredibly easy to seduce, and the moment he falls for a woman, he falls hard and goes too far in his attempts to show he's all-in on the relationship, which usually ends up driving the girl away from him.
  • Stalker with a Crush: He can be this at his worst. Most notably, he breaks into Lucía's house in an attempt to win her back, which instead gets him a restraining order.
  • Working with the Ex: He is the primary investor for Lucía's short-lived restaurant, which means they briefly work together.

Andrés Guerra

Played by: Santiago Ramos

A corrupt entrepreneur who moved into the 2-B with his then-wife Isabel and his children after going bankrupt. He still owns a sportswear store, which has seemingly seen better days. Leaves the building after a stint in the attic.


  • Affably Evil: Andrés is one of the most amoral characters on the show, constantly hitting on other neighbors, but he's also one of the most friendliest characters on the show... at least before he moved into the attic.
  • Butt-Monkey: Andrés' life turns into a real hell after he moves to Desengaño 21. His wife leaves him for his best friend and neighbor, he discovers that his favorite son is not his biological son, he is flirted by an insufferable woman who is much older than he is, he is forced to live in the attic of the building, and he is later forced to abandon the attic.
  • Corrupt Corporate Executive: His shady dealings have landed him wanted by the police or in prison a few times.
  • The Friend Nobody Likes: He seems to finally become that in Season 4, when his rude behavior and accumulation of trash in the attic rub most of the tenants the wrong way, to the point that they all vote to kick him out of the attic and Carmen and Vicenta are the only ones who are sad when he leaves the building.
  • Put on a Bus: In Season 4, after having amnesia caused by an accident, Andrés finds out about everything that has happened in his life (losing his fortune, being abandoned by his wife and children) and is horrified. He realizes that he no longer has any reason to continue living in Desengaño 21 and decides to leave and start over somewhere else, never to be seen again.
  • Verbal Business Card: "Andrés Guerra, from Deportes Guerra. Field, beach and sierra."

Nieves Cuesta

Played by: Carmen Balagué

Juan Cuesta's sister, who moves in with him and his children to help around after Paloma falls into a coma.


  • The Friend Nobody Likes: No one in the building likes Nieves, as she is bossy, arrogant, controlling and manipulative. Even Juan and the rest of the Cuesta family desperately try to convince her to leave.
  • Relative Error: The neighbors mistake her for Juan's lover when first seeing her.
  • Share Phrase: When first meeting the neighbors, she drops her brother's "correct" in the exact same manner as he usually says it, which is what convinces everyone that they are brother and sister.
  • Suspiciously Similar Substitute: She clearly has the same obnoxious personality as Paloma, and her main role in the plot is to be Juan's ally in his presidency, irritate the children, and try to prevent his romantic relationship with Isabel.

Carmen Villanueva

Played by: Llum Barrera

A university professor who briefly dates Emilio after he starts attending her classes.


  • Clingy Jealous Girl: After Emilio flunks out of college, her jealousy becomes more severe, and often calls Emilio and asks him to send pictures of where he is just to make sure he isn't cheating on her.
  • Mistaken for Gay: The Radio Patio trio immediately think she's turned lesbian when they see her move into the 2-B with confirmed lesbian Bea. She insists this is not the case, and is never seen romantically pursuing Bea, or any other woman. In fact, she's more annoyed than flattered at the attention she gets when she goes to a lesbian bar with Bea.
  • Not Good with Rejection: Her reaction to Emilio ending things with her, and later to Fernando rejecting her because of the Incompatible Orientation, is breaking as much furniture as possible before leaving.
  • Sextra Credit: Defied. Carmen makes it clear to Emilio that them dating and sleeping together will have no effect on his grades.
  • Shout-Out: The neighbors give her the nickname "Rottenmeier" after the straight-laced, uptight Mrs. Rottenmeier from Heidi, Girl of the Alps.

Lola

Played by: Elisa Matilla

A newly divorced police officer who briefly rents Belén's spare room at the 3-B... until she kicks her out for sleeping with Emilio.


  • Mrs. Robinson: After her divorce, she prefers to sleep with younger men.
  • Really Gets Around: She easily seduces and has sex with men who are younger than her.
  • Sex for Solace: After Emilio roped her into his failed Operation: Jealousy plan to get Carmen back, Lola offers to just have sex with him, which he sees no problem with.

    Non-residents 

Gerardo

Played by: Jaime Ordóñez

A bald man known for talking very fast and constantly changing jobs.


  • All There in the Manual: His name is never revealed in the series.
  • Motor Mouth: His defining trait is his ability to speak ridiculously fast, which most of the time prevents the neighbors from keeping up with his explanations.
  • New Job as the Plot Demands: Expect him to pop up any time the neighbors buy something that requires instructions, whether it is a cooking robot, a hot tub, or a spy camera. He is also seen working as a security guard at a mall.

Rosa Izquierdo

Played by: María Almudéver

A lesbian lawyer who dates Bea.


  • Amoral Attorney: Played with. She refuses to represent the clinic that fired Bea because of her sexuality because of recognizing how wrong the circumstances are (her fledging attraction to Bea also helps), but she also has no problem bribing Marisa to invalidate Vicenta's testimony when she represents Andrés in his divorce from Isabel.
  • Defecting for Love: She was set to represent the defendant when Bea sued the clinic that fired her, but leaves the case after meeting Bea and falling in love with her.
  • Sitcom Arch-Nemesis: Rosa is this to Mauri for the duration of her relationship with Bea, as he can't bring himself to trust her and, with Bea temporarily moving in with her after having the baby, he's jealous over her getting to spend more time with his son than himself.

Pedro Peñafiel

Played by: Álex Angulo

A fashion entrepreneur who dates and eventually marries his much younger employee Belén.


  • Alliterative Name: Pedro Peñafiel.
  • Exact Words: When first meeting Belén, he says that he works as an accountant. Later Belén is hired by his company and then it's revealed that he's indeed the accountant... among several other jobs in the company that include owner. He clarifies that he usually leaves this part out to avoid Gold Diggers.
  • Foil: To Emilio as a Love Interest for Belén. Pedro is a rich, gentlemanly entrepreneur; Emilio has more of a crass personality and is stuck with sharing the porter's lodge with his father because of his low wage.

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