The Cafona was the first novel of Bráulio Pedroso in TV Globo. The author wrote, for TV, Tupi Beto Rockfeller (1968), considered a watershed in Brazilian teledramaturgy for inaugurating the urban plots mirrored in Brazilians' daily lives. Braulio Pedroso was also noted for creating humorous stories with strong social criticism. To make one of the scenes of the novel, the actor Carlos Vereza, interpreter of the underground filmmaker Rogério, dismissed the stuntman and hung in the cable car of Sugar Loaf, camera in hand, to film the character Shirley Sexy (Marília Pêra) for a commercial.
Ilka Soares was attacked by a viewer because of her character's romance with a married man, played by Paulo Gracindo. The novel counted on the participation of famous people of the time, such as singer Maysa and noble Juan de Bourbon. Some people in the social columns were mirrored in the soap opera, and so they felt stricken. At the time, Braulio Pedroso went so far as to say that he had relied on real events and people. events and real people. The controversy made Rede Globo decide to display for the first time, after the presentation of the credits, the warning: "Any resemblance to people alive or dead or events happened would have been mere coincidence." Cafona marked the debuts on TV Globo of Ilka Soares and Elizângela, then 15 years old.