Chamas da Vida [SEP] country of origin
, a pedophile, on the internet. After his mother's death, Lipe moves from São Paulo to Nova Iguaçu, and ends up raping Viviane in the forest. After his second rape attempt, Lipe is caught by the police, but escapes. Viviane gets pregnant and undergoes an abortion. Besides being a legal procedure on rape cases in Brazil, abortion was never treated in a frank and positive way on telenovelas such as it has been on "Chamas da Vida". On the other hand, the telenovela also portrays
"Chamas da Vida" premiered at second place on the audience ratings. After SBT started to rerun "Pantanal", the telenovela lost part of its audience. However, it remained on the second place, losing it to "Pantanal" once in a while. After the end of both "Pantanal" and Rede Globo's "A Favorita", "Chamas da Vida" rose its audience ratings. The telenovela has reached an average rating of 15,5 in Rio de Janeiro and of 13,8 in São Paulo. Although