Mujeres de negro
Genre	Telenovela
Created by	Martha Carrillo Cristina García Gowjejkl
Based on	Mustat lesket by Laura Suhonen
Directed by	Fernando Nesme Lili Garza
Creative director	Jerry Funes
Starring	Mayrín Villanueva Alejandra Barros Ximena Herrera Arturo Peniche Diego Olivera Alexis Ayala Leticia Calderón
Opening theme	"Mujeres de negro"
Composer	Xavier Asali
Country of origin	Mexico
Original language	Spanish
No. of seasons	2
No. of episodes	51 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producer	Carlos Moreno
Producer	Hilda Santaella
Cinematography	Alejandro Frutos Miguel Del Valle Prieto Hugo Muñoz
Editors	Alfredo Sánchez Mauricio Coronel Felipe Ortiz Carlos Yáñez
Camera setup	Multi-camera
Production company	Televisa
Original release
Network	Las Estrellas
Release	August 22 (2016-08-22) – October 30, 2016 (2016-10-30)

Mujeres de negro [international title Dressed for mourning] is a Mexican telenovela produced by Carlos Moreno for Televisa.^[1] It premiered on August 22, 2016.^[1] A total of 50 episodes have been confirmed so far.^[2]

The main protagonists are portrayed by Alejandra Barros, Mayrín Villanueva and Ximena Herrera. Leticia Calderón and Arturo Peniche portray the main antagonists, with Diego Olivera and Alexis Ayala.^[2][1]

Plot

In the rich coastal town of Encino Blanco, three married couples spend the weekend at Coral Beach while their husbands go on their already traditional fishing trip on a yacht. Not far from the pier, the yacht suddenly explodes. Only chips remain on the surface. In seconds they lost their husbands, and they have to go on with their lives without them ... just as they planned.

Vanessa, Jackie and Katia have had very comfortable lives and their marriages before the others are almost perfect, but in reality the women are extremely unhappy because of their husbands.

Julio, Vanessa's husband, has gotten into shady deals that endanger the lives of Vanessa and Diego, his nine-year-old son. Jackie's husband, Lorenzo, is controlling, and humiliates and beats her without allowing her to have a life of her own. Nicolás, Katia's husband, has been in depression for years, with several suicide attempts, breaking his wife's dreams of having a family.

After the "accident", the widows, who were thought to have a normal, quiet lives find their lives transformed into a whirlwind of emotions and imbalance, as the police discover a bomb caused the yacht explosion. Now the police must find the culprit. The three women get into a world in which their lives are always in danger and where the economic interests of laboratories harass them.

Cast

Series overview

Episodes

Awards and nominations

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