# Burden of Guilt (2009)

> Four childhood friends at a Mexican apple hacienda find a sin threatening their lifelong bond, while a rejected daughter is raised by the family's maid.

Canonical page: https://ember.film/tv/16718

## Facts

- Seasons: 1
- Episodes: 110
- Episode runtime: 45 min
- Status: Ended
- Genres: drama
- Created by: María del Carmen Peña, Cuauhtémoc Blanco, Víctor Manuel Medina
- Network: Las Estrellas
- Cast: Maite Perroni, Eugenio Siller, Lucía Méndez, Daniela Castro, Sabine Moussier, Francisco Gattorno, Roberto Blandon, Armando Araiza
- TMDB rating: 7.3/10
- IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1445556/

## Ember's analysis

- Pacing: measured
- Intensity: strong
- Complexity: accessible
- Violence: mild
- Tone: melodramatic, intense, emotional, wistful

## What critics say

Audiences rated the telenovela positively, with its melodramatic family conflicts and sin-driven friendship drama holding viewer interest.

## Synopsis

Burden of Guilt (Mi pecado) is a Mexican telenovela created by María del Carmen Peña, Cuauhtémoc Blanco, and Víctor Manuel Medina for Las Estrellas, a Televisa production that aired in 2009 as a single season of 110 episodes. Its central figures are Lucrecia Córdoba (Maite Perroni), a daughter openly rejected by her mother, and Julián Huerta, called El Chamuco (Eugenio Siller). The engine of the story is a family divided by favoritism and a buried sin that threatens a childhood friendship between four men who grew up together. Paulino Córdoba (Roberto Blandon) owns the El Milagro apple hacienda, and his wife Rosario (Daniela Castro) has always favored her son over Lucrecia, who was raised instead by Delfina, the household maid. Each episode is built from family confrontations, secret loyalties, and romantic entanglements that tighten week by week. The tone is melodramatic and emotionally heavy, with wounded pride, guilt, and longing driving every scene. Set in rural Mexico among orchards and estate life, it carries the class tensions typical of the form. Fans of La Usurpadora, Rosalinda and Rubí will find resonance in its operatic family conflicts and its heroine's long road toward recognition.

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