Pusong Ligaw

Pusong Ligaw
Also known as	Lost Hearts
Genre	Melodrama Romance
Created by	Henry King Quitain Jay Fernando
Written by	Jerome Co Ronalisa Co Maan Dimaculangan-Fampulme Reign Loleng
Directed by	Garry Fernando Elfren Vibar Henry King Quitain GB Sampedro Ian Loreños
Creative director(s)	Olivia M. Lamasan
Starring	Beauty Gonzalez Bianca King Sofia Andres Diego Loyzaga Enzo Pineda Joem Bascon Raymond Bagatsing
Opening theme	Pusong Ligaw by Jona
Composer(s)	Jericho Rosales
Country of origin	Philippines
Original language(s)	Filipino
No. of episodes	189
Production
Executive producer(s)	Ronald L. Faina
Producer(s)	Myleen H. Ongkiko
Production location(s)	Manila, Philippines
Editor(s)	Shyra Joaquin
Running time	30–45 minutes
Production company(s)	Star Creatives
Release
Original network	ABS-CBN
Picture format	480i (SDTV) 1080i (HDTV)
Original release	April 24, 2017 (2017-04-24) – January 12, 2018 (2018-01-12)
External links
Website

Pusong Ligaw (English: Lost Hearts) is a 2017 Philippine melodrama television series starring Beauty Gonzalez, Bianca King, Sofia Andres, Diego Loyzaga, Enzo Pineda, Joem Bascon and Raymond Bagatsing.^[1][2][3] The series premiered on ABS-CBN's Kapamilya Gold afternoon block and worldwide via The Filipino Channel from April 24, 2017 to January 12, 2018, replacing The Greatest Love.^[4]

Plot

Pusong Ligaw is a classic story about friendship, love, and achieving dreams. Two women, Tessa and Marga are bound by a promise to keep their friendship forever. This fictional drama follows them through the disintegration of their friendship, the tragedy in their lives and their childrens, and their reconciliation.

They both come from poor families but Tessa and Marga always support each other as they face their issues, struggles, challenges, as well as the happy experiences of their youth. Their bond is tested when Caloy enters their lives. Caloy has a historical relationship with Marga, but she prefers to keep it platonic. He meets Tessa and they fall in love. Marga changes her mind about Caloy and decides she can win him back. As Tessa pursues her dream of becoming a fashion designer, Caloy gets jealous of Tessa’s mentor, the wealthy and influential Jaime Laurel, owner of a fashion conglomerate in Asia and America, who invites Tessa to one of his events. Marga uses Caloy’s jealousy to undermine his faith in Tessa, and in one drunken evening, they spend the night together.

Tessa finds them together the next morning and is distraught. Shattered and broken over the betrayal of both friends, she leaves Caloy and returns to her home in the province. She discovers she is pregnant and her mother banishes her from their home. Tessa moves to Manila alone and supports herself. She gives birth to a boy, Rafael, and struggles to earn a living as a seamstress in Divisoria. Her life further destructs when her baby is kidnapped by a woman known by authorities for kidnapping and selling babies. Unable to find her son, Tessa is distraught and out of her mind when Jaime Laurel finds her and takes care of her. Years later, they get married. Although Tessa never stops looking for her son, she adopts a street urchin and calls him Rafa.

Caloy is heartbroken over losing Tessa. He returns to school and completes his engineering degree. He leaves to work abroad with an international shipping company, saving a substantial amount of money when he returns. He opens a business servicing companies and retail establishments requiring mechanical repairs of tools and mechanical equipment. He does very well, and is able to build a large house and continues to support orphans with building their job skills to keep them off the streets.

Marga becomes a successful entrepreneur, her talent agency becomes one of the biggest in the Philippines. She runs into Caloy and the two resume their friendship and eventually become a couple.

Tessa goes on to fulfill her dream to become a fashion designer, and with the help of Jaime, she opens a fashion coutre house in the US called House of Teri. They return to Manila when Jaime feels Tessa is ready to launch her ready to wear brand in the Philippine market.

The lives of the three friends collide at the House of Teri launch. But instead of renewing old friendship and forgiving past mistakes, they thread down a path of jealousy, revenge and obsession, this time including Jaime Laurel, the one person most affected by their history.

In the near end of the series, it is revealed that Jaime was responsible for murdering his foster son Rafa and a master manipulator of the events so far and both Tessa and Caloy discovered the DNA results on Potpot known as Ira Policarpio is their biological son Rafael Magbanua Cervantes in which Jaime manipulates her for blaming her real son for the crime he did not commit. He pretends to had a car accident while he was after by the authorities and was barely survives the car crash. Due to his mental instability, he kidnaps Marga's son as a bait to get Tessa which it succeeds until the arrival of Caloy, Marga and the authorities to rescue them. Eventually, Marga sacrifices to rescue Tessa from getting shot by Jaime until he was neutralized by the authorities.

In the end after Marga's death who is not survived from her gunshot wounds at the hospital, Leon was serving time in life imprisonment after became involved with Jaime on Rafa's murder and Jaime was in the mental asylum after surviving the gunshot wound by the authorities, Tessa became the owner and the enterpreneur of House of Teri where she shows a tribute of all fashion models including Vida wearing the dress designs made by her late best friend Marga as their dreams was finally come true that has started when they were youth, and being supported by Caloy, Rafael and Vida.

Cast

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See also

• List of programs broadcast by ABS-CBN
• List of drama series of ABS-CBN

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