A reflection on motherhood and the many ways to understand and exercise it is the proposal for the series Heridas, which lands this Thursday on Antena 3 after its premiere a year ago on the Atresplayer Premium platform. The series produced by Atresmedia TV in collaboration with Buendía Estudios is an adaptation of the Japanese series Mother (Mother), whose Turkish remake was a great international success.
The series, which consists of 13 50-minute episodes, is an intense drama that addresses child abandonment and the search for one's own identity through the present and past experiences of its two protagonists, Manuela and Yolanda, whose lives will take a new and unknown course after the first meets Alba, the daughter of the second, and the little one suddenly disappears without a trace.
Adriana Ugarte plays that Manuela, a young woman who lives alone in a cabin where she studies the Andalusian wetlands. At the age of 28, her life revolves around birds, those that live there and those that are passing through like her. A few kilometers away lives Alba (Cosette Silguero), a six-year-old girl whose mother, Yolanda (María León), works at night as a dancer in an American bar and sleeps during the day. With a boyfriend to match her chaos and a life devoid of order, she tries to care for her daughter with more misses than hits.
“The series breaks myths about how a motherhood has to be to be recognized as such. There are so many different ways of exercising motherhood as women, ”Adriana Ugarte explained about this series that, in her opinion, moves away“ from Manichaeism and dogmas ”. Regarding her character, she anticipated that "Manuela is not a light that appears to bring Alba out of the shadows and darkness, nor is it that she promises a great future for the girl, it is quite doubtful, she is a character that we do not quite see clearly and of which we constantly doubt”.
Manuela meets the little girl in an ice cream parlor when she sits next to her and a maternal conversation ensues between the two. Manuela perceives her loneliness and her concern grows when they discover some of the problems the girl is having. “There is something in the character of Alba that takes her away from her and produces in her a kind of rebirth of the tenderness that she lost when she was very little. There is something of infatuation and obsession. He is moved by wanting to help her, but there is something about not being able to live without her or get rid of her ”, adds Ugarte.
The other type of motherhood that is reflected in the series is that represented by Yolanda, who is played by María León. Although on paper she may seem like a bad mother, the actress defends her because she is "the wrong person, not a bad person." "I want to think that people are going to understand Yolanda and they are also going to learn with her, they are going to admire her, because the difficult thing is to be brave, face yourself and decide to give yourself a chance," continues the actress, who shows herself proud of having managed to capture a Yolanda of flesh and blood. "People don't make a mistake wanting to, they make a mistake because they lack or don't have tools," she concludes.
