Guajira

After writing blockbuster Soap Opera "Café", Fernando Gaitán became one of the most respected "Novela(Soap Opera)" writers, of Colombia. But I really don´t know why he changed so much in this new project. The actors were great but the characters were weak, the story got lost several times.

The script writer failed in trying to catch the audience, because there was not a guiding line in the plot. It seemed as if he did not know where to take the story, and made wrong experiments with it, and of course, improvisation, even from a great writer, usually ends in a crash.

I don't quite agree with Riman's review specially when he says "Fernando Gaitán became one of the most respected "Novela(Soap Opera)" writers, of Colombia. But I really don't know why he changed so much in this new project." I'd say is the other way around. Yes he became very well respected after "Cafe" and he still is well respected BUT his mistake with Guajira was cause he DIDN'T CHANGE anything at all. Cafe was so well done and everybody felt in love with the couple "Gaviota y Sebastian" that he tried to replicate the story but replacing coffee with oil.

Apart from that I'd say the soap opera was OK. It's about a guy (Helmut) who has to move and live in Guajira (a place in the north of Colombia) cause the company he works for finds oil in that place so he's in charge of a project to get certain amount of oil but has to meet a dead line. The problem is that the community living there makes it hard and he gets into a lot of troubles to meet this dead line and he has to risk his life several times. That's the plot as I recall it.