About The First Time
The First Time (Spanish title La Primera Vez, released internationally as Eva Lasting) is a warm Colombian coming-of-age dramedy produced by Caracol Television for Netflix. Set in 1970s Bogota, the series follows a tight group of teenagers as they stumble through first loves, friendship, family expectations, and the messy business of growing up. The heart of the story is Eva Samper, a spirited and free-thinking girl who becomes the first young woman to enroll at an all-boys public high school, upending the routines of a campus that has never known anyone quite like her.
Eva quickly falls in with a band of awkward, idealistic boys led by the bookish, soft-spoken Camilo Granados, whose quiet crush blossoms into the show's central first-love arc. Around them orbit loyal best friends, rivals, and the boys' families, whose own hopes and disappointments color the teenagers' coming of age. As the friends trade poetry, music, and confessions, the series captures the tender exhilaration and confusion of figuring out who you are alongside the people you grow up with.
Blending gentle humor with genuine emotion, the show frames its youthful romance and friendship against a changing Colombia, where new ideas about freedom, equality, and self-expression are taking root. It is a nostalgic, hopeful portrait of adolescence, built on the warmth of its ensemble and the slow-burn sweetness of a first crush that neither Eva nor Camilo quite knows how to name.
