About Cuore Contro Cuore
Cuore Contro Cuore is an Italian legal drama that aired on Canale 5 across the 2004 to 2005 season, produced by Taodue and directed by Riccardo Mosca. Set in Rome, the series follows Francesca De Luca, a respected civil lawyer who has long worked inside the thriving practice run by her husband, Claudio Donati. When Francesca discovers that Claudio has been unfaithful, she walks away from both the marriage and the firm, taking their two children with her and opening a rival practice of her own.
What follows is a tense professional and personal duel between two former partners who once shared a life and now face each other across the courtroom. Their competing firms take on a steady stream of family-law cases, from contested divorces and custody fights to abandoned children and parents trying to dodge their responsibilities, and each case echoes the unresolved feelings between Francesca and Claudio. The series uses these legal stories to examine how love, pride, and parenthood collide when a marriage comes apart.
Alongside the central pair, the ensemble includes Alessandra Vinci, a sharp civil attorney whose own ambitions and loyalties complicate the rivalry. Across its single season the show blends emotional human drama with the procedural rhythm of a busy law office, framing each verdict as much about the heart as about the law. Though it ran for only one season, Cuore Contro Cuore stands as a representative example of the relationship-driven legal fiction that Italian primetime favored in the mid-2000s.
