Every family member gets individual storylines, though Cucu holds down the series’ center. Mother Adela (Diana Maria Riva) looks forward to a new life and a house with a pool fashionably thin older sister Emilia (Savannah Nicole Ruiz) is happy to be going to a school not run by nuns. Cucu’s family of four moves to Miami when father Victor (Juan Javier Cardenas) is hired as a marketing executive at an airline looking to expand its Latin American market. Olivia Goncalves plays 12-year-old “Cucu” Castelli, the eponymous “Gordita,” translated here as “little chubby” and considered a term of endearment back home in the Dominican Republic. And yes, your disagreement is duly noted.
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