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The first season of the Italian television series Hearts, consisting of 16 episodes, will be broadcast in first vision (in the prime time slot) on Rai 1 from 17 October to 28 November 2021.

The American and the Swedish
1967. Cesare Corvara, head of the heart surgery department of the Le Molinette hospital in Turin, is putting together a team of exceptional doctors to attempt an equally exceptional undertaking: to carry out the first heart transplant in history. Among those summoned are the brilliant doctor Delia Brunello, gifted with an absolute ear that allows her to easily identify anomalies, who returns to Italy after a six-year apprenticeship in Houston, and the rising star Alberto Ferraris, recalled by the Institute Karolinska of Stockholm, and Delia's ex-boyfriend.

Returning from America, at the end of the journey Delia rescues Antonio, a passenger who is about to have a heart attack, and takes him to the hospital where he must insist that he be operated on by the Ferraris team. At the end of the surgery, Corvara introduces Delia to everyone as the new cardiologist. Chief surgeon Enrico Mosca does not hide his envy towards Ferraris, since he is clearly Corvara's favorite, and he also has prejudices towards Brunello because she is a woman.

Meanwhile, Cesare clashes with his daughter Virginia, a medical student who has not attended compulsory courses in the last six months and therefore risks expulsion, and who is angry with her father because she considers him too busy with work and because he has decided to remarry, accusing him of wanting to replace his mother. Virginia is not expelled but suspended; Cesare scolds her and forces her daughter to do an internship in her ward for the entire time the courses are suspended, so that she understands what it means to be a doctor.

At a party organized by Cesare with the surgeons and their families, Alberto tries to clarify himself with Delia hoping to resume their relationship, but she refuses, telling him that it is too late: in fact, shortly after Cesare announces to all those present that Delia, besides for being an exceptional doctor, she did him the honor of becoming his wife.

Until love do us part
1947. During a hike in the mountains, Alberto's father, Mario, and his younger sister, Luisa, slide off a wall. Although seriously injured, the man has time to explain to his son how to suture his sister's wound.

1967. Luisa has a nightmare and confides in her brother that she feels guilty both for the death of their father and for the separation between Delia and Alberto himself, and the latter reveals to her that the woman has remarried precisely to her superior. Meanwhile, Delia tries to be accepted by Virginia, but the girl insists on behaving hostile towards her, both at home and at work. The cardiologist also has to face problems of acclimatization in the hospital, between patients who do not trust her because she is a woman, colleagues who look at her badly and Alberto, who attacks her, believing that she married Cesare only to make a career, and not takes into account its accurate diagnoses.

Cesare does not have an easy life because he has to defend himself from accusations of favoritism at the council meeting, despite his wife's curriculum is respectable, with a 110 cum laude degree and the American specialization: in case of bankruptcy he promises that he will resign from the position of primary. The only one to defend him at the council is Beatrice, wife of the director Carlo Dattilo: the two have been lovers, but now that Cesare is married she rejects her.

Delia diagnoses the young wife Alice with an abnormal blood flow between the right and left ventricles: the first is overloaded, and the patient must be operated on as soon as possible. The girl is agitated because Bruno is not found; before having a hypertensive crisis, she explains to Delia that the closer to the wedding day the more she thought about her ex about her so she went to him but she did nothing because as soon as she saw him she knew immediately that Bruno was the man of her life of hers. Delia convinces Cesare to operate on Alice's congenital defect, but the heart risks collapsing due to the excessive overload on the ventricle: it takes the heart of a volunteer to circulate Alice's blood during the surgery, and Bruno himself proposes himself. who decides to stay next to the girl. Cesare, having noticed the disagreements between Alberto and Delia, tries to make up for it by asking the two to have mutual trust.

Ermanno, an elderly patient whom Alberto had operated on a few days earlier and who tried in vain to get in touch with him, dies. Alberto admits to Delia that he did not want to talk to him because, after three heart attacks, there was now nothing for Ermanno to do; moreover the man was a mountain guide and always accompanied the Ferraris in the mountains, except on the day of the accident because he could not come.

Delia tries to make peace with Alberto, but when he kisses her she slaps him and attacks him hard. A flashback hints at why the two broke up six years earlier: after discovering him in bed with another girl, Delia ran away.