Prostitution, wealth, ignorance, disease, abortion, pure love, motherhood, and hope are the main themes of this plot, shown in 2002 with a great success of audience, reaching the last episode a higher average 50% share.
Joaquim Horta was making his debut in the best way novels, shining like the villain Hipólito Cardoso.
The novel revealed two large children's talents, Sara Barradas and Diogo Martins. The first continued in novels TVI. Diogo jumped into the SIC in 2006 to live Martim, psychologically young striker in the soap opera child Floribella, but rather was in Strawberries with Sugar and The Club of the Keys, both on TVI.
The fado singer Raquel Tavares had a small part in some of the episodes incarnating the role of a prostitute.
Toze Martin said in an interview, that Dawn was a number, not a novel, many of the destinations of some characters would not have been those who were.