After three years away from soap operas, Humberto Carrão will return for a longer job on television. This is because the artist is quoted for a new telenovela at Globo. The actor will be part of the fixed cast of Manuela Dias' Amor de Mãe, replacing  A Dona do Pedaço, written by Walcyr Carrasco. 

The last work of the actor in telenovelas happened in Wounded Past, by Maria Adelaide Amaral and Vincent Villari, writers of Tangled Hearts which he also starred in. 

Since then, he was in the second season of Under Pressure (2018) and dedicated himself to the cinema, participating in Aurora (2017), Paraiso Perdida (2018) and Marighella (2019). 

Like actress and comedian Regina Casé, Carrão was interested in the different proposal that director José Villamarim and Manuela told him. 

The plot of Amor de Mãe kick starts when a man sells his own son because he is very poor and unable to raise him. Years go by and the birth mother discovers that her boy was raised by a wealthy family. She decides to leave the interior of Minas Gerais and go to the capital of Rio de Janeiro. The protagonist's son is accused of murdering the brother of the woman he loves and must prove his innocence. It is at this moment that mother and child unite around one cause. 

In addition to Carrão and Regina Casé, there are confimed actors such as Adriana Esteves, Juliano Cazarré, Chay Suede, Isis Valverde, Taís Araújo, Murilo Benicio, Debora Falabella, Renata Sorrah, Julio Andrade, Lazaro Ramos, Vladmir Brichta, Irandhir Santos, Isabella Santoni, Leandra Leal, Thiago Fragoso, Malu Galli, among others.