A soapy pair to fall in love with.

(From Philippine Daily Inquirer)

IN THE convoluted world of the telenovela, "Te Amo's" (Spanish for "I Love You") story is pretty much par for the course: wicked stepmother and stepsister make life a living hell for Rosela, the show's pretty but naive heroine. Orphaned at a young age, she is forced by her tormentors to quit school to sell fish.

Except for the occasional slapping and hair-pulling she absorbs, Rosela's life has become pretty much humdrum, until she stumbles on an unconscious Fernando one fine day on the beach.

The handsome stranger, it turns out, is a Latino. How he wound up in the Philippines is anybody's guess, but it doesn't take a

genius to guess that he now suffers from -yes!-amnesia.

After the where-am-I-, who-are-you bit, the two hurdle a million and one obstacles in the name of love.

Of course, like the beleaguered characters of countless soap operas, they end up in each other's arms before the series draws to a close four months from now.