The original story begins by introducing a handsome 22-year-old Danijel Lončar (
Zoran Pribičević) coming home to
Zagreb, on his 22nd birthday, after losing his job in
Italy. At the railway station, he bumps into a beautiful girl. They both feel immediate attraction. Danijel doesn’t even get the chance to ask for her name as they are greeted by their friends and family. The girl is Petra Novak (
Anita Berisha) who also returned home, after studying
photography in
London, funny enough, on a present-day she also celebrates her 22nd birthday. It soon transpires that Danijel and Petra were twins separated at birth. Danijel had initially been raised by the wise Nada Horvat (
Nada Rocco) before returning to his father Josip Lončar (
Drazen Mikulić), and Petra raised by her mother Viktorija Novak (
Sanja Vejnović) who had married into money to a rich aristocrate widower Stjepan Novak (
Velimir Čokljat). The parents of the twins had each married other people and raised families which had other adult children. The Lončar family comprised Danijel's father Josip Lončar, a construction worker; and Josip's wife Biserka Lončar (
Vanja Matujec), a warm-hearted, down-to-earth housewife. Their children were Iva Lončar (
Marija Kobić) and Matija (
Filip Riđički), Iva had just started a romantic involvement with Igor Carević (
Dejan Marcikić) and Matija started seeing his class member Lana Kos (
Petra Kurtela). Petra had grown up with her mother Viktorija (
Sanja Vejnović), Viktorija's husband Stjepan who was a successful wineyard owner and businessman, and Stjepan's son from an earlier marriage, the spiteful Borna Novak (
Mario Valentić). After Danijel's investigation into Petra's whereabouts, he slowly enters the world of the powerful Novak family by landing a job as a
gardener, not knowing he is working for his biological mother, nor that he has fallen in love with his own sister. Other major characters include Lidija Bauer (
Katija Zubčić) who has always had strong feelings for Stjepan, but who stepped away out of respect towards the family and her children. Lidija has two children of her own: the spoiled and stubborn teenager Tina Bauer (
Antonija Šola) and the good-natured medical student Leon Bauer (
Mario Mohenski, later
Marin Knežević), who was betrothed to Petra at Viktorija's instigation only for the wedding to be cancelled after a revelation about his
homosexuality. Viktorija's best friend, the dizzy socialite Stela Vidak (
Matija Prskalo), was introduced as a minor figure during the show's early days as someone to whom Viktorija could recite expository dialogue about her latest scheme to, but soon emerged as a key character. ==Series overview==