Os Mutantes: Caminhos do Coração is a Brazilian telenovela produced and broadcast by RecordTV between June 3, 2008 and March 23, 2009 in 242 chapters, replacing Caminhos do Coração and preceding Mutantes: Promessas de Amor , being the second part of the trilogy. It is the 11th telenovela broadcast by the channel since the resumption of dramaturgy in 2004. It was written by Tiago Santiago , with collaboration from Altenir Silva , Doc Comparato , Gibran Dipp, Maria Cláudia Oliveira , and Waldir Leite , under the direction of Daniel Ghivelder, Guto Arruda Botelho, Hamsa Woo, Pollyana Silva, Vicente Barcellos and Vivianne Jundi and general direction by Alexandre Avancini .