El Camino Secreto
El Camino Secreto (English title:"The Secret Path") is a Mexican telenovela produced by Emilio Larrosa for Televisa in 1986. Daniela Romo and Salvador Pineda starred as the protagonists, while first actor Claudio Brook, Patsy Pepping and Mar Castro starred as the main antagonists. Leticia Calderón, Gabriela Rivero and Carlos Ancira co-starred in supporting roles, with Ancira receiving special billing. It was the last acting role for Carlos Ancira, eight months before his death from a brain tumor on October 10, 1987. Plot. Mario and Santiago are both in love with the same woman, Martha. Martha becomes  pregnant by Santiago and together they raise two daughters, Gabriela and Julieta. Mario and Santiago are involved in a diamond smuggling ring headed by Adolfo Avila, who murders Martha and blackmails both Mario and Santiago into taking the fall for it. Santiago flees with his young daughters, using his skills as an actor and master of disguise to assume the new identity of Fausto Guillén and the girls grow up unaware of his past as Santiago. Twenty years later, the now wealthy Mario discovers that he is dying, so he seeks out Santiago and asks him to take his place . But Adolfo murders the ailing Mario, and Santiago is forced to hastily adopt Mario's identity in order to throw Adolfo off track, while keeping from the girls that he is not Fausto, but Santiago. Meanwhile, Gabriela meets Santiago's adopted son David and they fall in love with each other. But Gabriela's physical resemblance to her mother Martha attracts Adolfo's attention, placing everyone's lives in deadly danger.