El cuerpo del Deseo also known as Second Chance is a Spanish-language telenovela produced by Telemundo and Film in Florida. This limited-run series is about a man who comes back from the dead and discovers dark secrets about his beautiful widow. The first version of El cuerpo del Deseo was En Cuerpo Ajeno produced by RTI Colombia in 1992.This telenovela was aired in 25 countries around the world.

The main character is Monika Borecka, TV producer and manager. She is a modern woman of success - strong, attractive, hard-working and self-confident. Seemingly, she's leading a perfect life: she's on the peak of her career, makes money, and has a handsome partner. She loves living in a big city, she is always updated with news. Monika is ambitious and creative. In the world of show-business, she feels like a duck in water. She's going to celebrate her 40th birthday with beloved ones. Suddenly...she loses everything. Without job, friends, rejected by the world of show-biz which was her entire world. Arrested and convicted to social services in hospital. Monika, for the first time in her life is left on the own. Betrayed, humiliated, disillusioned and without hope. Monika faces many problems to find the answer for a question: what is the most important thing in life? Is she able to struggle with hardships of life? How to use a second chance, which is given us by lock to find our true destiny? The series also shows scenes of show business and reveals to the audience the mechanisms governing the world.

A doctor searching frantically for her missing baby daughter finds herself tangled in a web of ruthless criminals, suspicious cops and dark secrets.

Blizhnegorsk is a city in central Russia, with a population of about 600 thousand. A gray city with industrial production, average and therefore even more depressing. For the most part, the older generation, like everywhere else in Russia, leads a hard, hopeless life. Few people want to repeat the fate of their parents, and therefore every young resident of the city dreams most of all that life will give him a chance. A chance to get out of the swamp and become happy. But few people manage to win right away without making mistakes, those who stumble, life gives a second chance. And the last one. All our heroes receive it - six young men and girls living in the same yard.

When a timid teacher meets a charismatic restaurateur, opposites hardly attract until their painful pasts transform their connection into love.

Julien Monnier has a serious problem. Though he's a brilliant couples counselor, he can't keep a woman in his life for more than two weeks. Indeed, ever since his childhood, Julien jinxes every woman who falls in love with him. But it's not just any small jinx. It's the kind that sends you to the hospital several times a week, that destroys your professional life or that turns your friends into enemies. Julien is strictly speaking a true black cat for women. Joanna Sorini will soon learn this at her expense the day she meets him. A career that's just taking off, a love life that finally seems to be taking a good turn, all that may just change.

Detectives and best friends Andreas and Simon lead vastly different lives; Andreas has settled down with his beautiful wife and son; while Simon, recently divorced, spends most of his waking hours getting drunk at the local strip club. But all that changes when the two of them are called out to a domestic dispute between a junkie couple, caught in a vicious cycle of violence and drugs. It all looks very routine – until Andreas finds the couple's infant son, crying in a closet. The usually collected policeman finds himself confronted with his own powerlessness and is shaken to his core. As Andreas slowly loses his grip on justice, it suddenly becomes up to the unruly Simon to restore the balance between right and wrong.

Twenty years ago, Dashan and Yoyo, who was the girlfriend of his brother Dajiang, had smoked dope on the verandah. Dajiang was so angry that he beat Yoyo up. She fell off the building, and the scene was witnessed by an ugly girl named Xiaoxian. Dashan is now a maverick lawyer who does lots of pro bono work. He is attached to the firm of his mentor, Chen Guo. Old Bao, a private investigator, and Alvin, a ruffian, often help him with his cases. His girlfriend, Sun Kaili, works in the same law firm as he does.

Many people have heard of stories similar to Thong Fah's (means Sky in Thai), a young boy who recently lost his father. Other than Thong Fah's mother, his close childhood friend, Paper, helps him cope with different situations. The two help each other all the time, until their relationship develops into something more. One day, Jeno is attacked by the person he loves causing him to no longer believe in love until Chris, an acquaintance of his, tries to get him to open up again. At the first opportunity, they failed. So they wait for a second chance to focus on what they want to achieve and it is at that time that everyone will try to love again.

The events revolve around Malak, who loses her memory after a painful accident due to her shock at her fiancé Ziad and his betrayal of her.

So-jin was Yoo-geon's childhood friend and first love. They meet again as she becomes one of his teachers in high school. After he suddenly dies, Yoo-geon is given a second chance in the form of thirty hours during which he finds the meaning of love. Based on the Japanese drama, "Loss Time Life" aired in 2008.

Paramet is a wealthy widower in conflict with his daughter Pin over his decision to marry Rata. Rata is a younger woman who Pin believes wants nothing more than to inherit her father's assets. The conflict exacerbates until the day Paramet has a fatal heart attack and comes back in the body of a younger man.

It is a show.

After leaving her husband and children on a whim, Nathalie returns to university and moves in with a roommate.

Imprisoned as an accessory to murder, Catherine gives birth to a son she conceived in prison. Eighteen years later, her sentence served, she is reunited with the boy, Simon, who has remained in an orphanage the entire time. She is accompanied by toothsome prison buddy Sarah, and gradually these people whose lives have been frozen in time "thaw" and get on with the business of living.

Carlos is a tormented young man who reflects in bitter loneliness on the terrible events that led to an accident in which he and his parents were involved. Carlos recalls happy family moments, but he also remembers his father's angry claim upon discovering his big secret, that he is homosexual. Carlos begs for "A second chance" to talk about what was trapped in his heart; at that moment he opens his eyes to reality.

The soothing pace of the film shows a woman's journey to reinvent herself, as Anna serves 15 years for a murder she committed as a teenager, and although her sentence has expired, the strange looks around her mean that her trial is not yet over. Anna travels far from home to a small town and finds a job, ready to start a new life, but she still struggles with closure, fear, prejudice, and the black holes left by the old days that she must fill herself.

Second Chance interweaves three stories of three women living in the same block of flats, creating a kaleidoscopic observation of the experience of being a mother and the self-sacrifice involved in bringing another life into this world. At a time of absurdities as Macedonia teeters on the brink of civil war, each of these women struggle to find meaning in their existence, each facing their own demons while trying to preserve their humanity.