Male. Law firm associates.

Female. Elegant & authoritative.

Male. Law firm clients.

Female. Law firm clients.

Male. Strong physical presence.

Male. Uniformed Police Officer.

Female. Woman in evening gown.

Male. Waiter.

Margaret is an intelligent teenager who is currently in her 5th foster home. She remains reserved and observant while adapting to her new environment. She can't help the hesitant curiosity she feels towards Mrs. Williams delicious cake, which she is forbidden to try. Note: Margaret has to handle a knife and kills another character. There will be a stunt coordinator on set.

Mrs. Williams is the perfect mother, friend, and community member. She is praised for her famous red velvet cakes, but it is all built on a lie. Throughout the film, it is revealed that she has taken advantage of her previous foster kids and used their blood to enhance her baked goods. Underneath her flawless persona, she is a greedy, conniving, and clever woman, who would do whatever it takes to upkeep her idyllic life. Note: Mrs. Williams throat gets slashed at the end of the film. There will be a stunt coordinator on set.

Pearl is Mrs. Williams's biological daughter -- quiet and observant with a young demeanour. She is perceived as being peculiar due to her wide-eye stare and tendency to appear out of nowhere. She inherently knows that her mother's actions are wrong but she is too afraid to defy her, until she befriends Margaret -- her mother's new foster kid. Note: Pearl handles a knife. There will be a stunt coordinator on set.

Supporting Role. White American man, rigid and broad-built, impeccably dressed, with a commanding, domineering presence. Thomas Fergusson is an ambitious landowner—opportunistic, volatile, and driven by entitlement. Cold and calculating, he shows open contempt toward Mexicans, expressing an unapologetically classist and racist worldview. He embodies colonial power and the postwar seizure of land, determined to impose a new order that erases and displaces the original landowners.

Supporting Role. White woman, tall, with sharp features and haughty manners. Grace Fergusson is cold, classist, and superficial. She looks down on what she considers “savage” and regards Romana and Catarino with condescension. Although more restrained than her husband, she shares his elitist worldview. A devout and practicing Christian, she embodies a deep moral contradiction: outwardly committed to God’s laws, yet inwardly dismissive and contemptuous of anyone who is different from herself.

Supporting Role. Young, handsome American man. William is noble in nature, raised under a strict Christian doctrine. Though generally kind and well-mannered, he cannot fully escape his parents’ elitist and colonial worldview. Dutiful and obedient—to both his household and God—he follows rules unquestioningly, even when that obedience leads him toward misfortune.

Supporting Role. A blonde girl, daughter of Thomas and Grace Fergusson, with the same sharp expression as her mother- almost doll-like in appearance. Mary is a peculiar child: playful, mischievous, and willful. She delights in getting her way, and there is something faintly cruel about her nature, she takes pleasure in her pranks, even when they cause harm to others.

Day Player. Young, handsome American man, impeccably dressed and effortlessly elegant. Charles Waldo is a highly respected surveyor, among the finest in the United States. Serious and disciplined, he has arrived from Connecticut to measure and map the land Mexico lost in the war against the United States.

Adam is an ordinary guy leading an ordinary life. A strike of recent misfortune has stirred up some mental issues he's hoping to address in therapy, though he's skeptical the tools they assign will help him, considering they never have in the past. A certified stunt actor is required for this role, as shooting involves fight choreography.

The narrator is a being that transcends time and space. He takes the form of a gentleman from an era where men wore suits and hats, but his choices, fashion or otherwise, are kept deep in his own consciousness, away from comprehension. He sees our world, though the part he plays in it are as mystical as his own nature. He lives in the beyond — in the twilight zone.

Affectionate, present, honest even at the cost of discomfort

Calm, grounded, pensive, afraid of what he does not know and can't control