Director: Angela Chaves
A Brazilian family drama built around one woman's longing for motherhood, Desperate Lies follows Liana as ordinary hopes collide with events far outside her control.
What is Desperate Lies (Pedaço de Mim) about?
Liana has spent years picturing the life she wants: a steady marriage to Tomás and, eventually, a child of her own. That picture starts to crack when a string of unforeseen circumstances pulls at the seams of their relationship. Rather than resolving neatly, each development in Liana's life opens new pressure points — old loyalties are tested, assumptions about the people closest to her turn out to be shakier than she thought, and the marriage she has built her future around has to withstand strain it was never designed for. The series moves at a soap-adjacent pace typical of Brazilian primetime drama, layering domestic tension with moments of quiet reflection. Supporting characters orbit the central couple, each carrying their own stakes in how Liana's story unfolds, and the show uses their perspectives to widen the emotional scope beyond a single household. Told over a run of forty-five-minute episodes, it settles into a rhythm of escalation and release that keeps the central question open: what happens to a marriage, and a dream of family, once reality stops cooperating with either.
Cast & crew
Juliana Paes anchors the series as Liana, working opposite Vladimir Brichta's Tomás; Felipe Abib, Paloma Duarte, Martha Nowill, João Vitti, and Yohama Eshima round out the ensemble that surrounds the couple with family and outside complications.
Context & significance
Desperate Lies (Pedaço de Mim) arrived in 2024 as part of Brazil's long-running tradition of primetime television drama, a format built on tightly plotted domestic stakes and season-long emotional arcs. Director Angela Chaves keeps the focus tethered to Liana's point of view even as the supporting cast's own complications widen the frame, a structure common to the genre and one that rewards viewers who stay with the slower character beats between the bigger dramatic turns.
Where & how to watch
Desperate Lies streams on K-Time with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles available, so viewers can follow the Brazilian original in Farsi audio or with Farsi text on screen. The show's page is free to browse; watching the episodes requires signing in with a K-Time account. K-Time's interface runs in Farsi throughout, built for the Iranian diaspora audience watching international drama at home.