Camila Luna (early 30s) a seemingly timid woman with a strength and ferocity that boils just below the surface. She is a survivor with secrets who has not outrun her traumas. She will risk everything to protect her daughter from the cycles of violence and abuse she suffered as a young girl at the hands of the Mendozas.
Maria Elena Luna (11) is a strong-willed tomboy facing puberty. She's a fearless child startled by the dangers of womanhood. Intelligent though uneducated, she is observant and intuitively understands the threats of the world she inhabits and what is at stake when she is taken from her mother.
Ignacio Luna (late 30s/early 40s) the foreman of a tobacco farm who does what is within his limited power to protect and provide for his wife and child whom he loves. Ashamed of the things he does to maintain his semi-privileged position, he turns to religion for redemption and alcohol to cope.
Sebastian Mendoza (late 50s) is the wealthy landowner turned politician controlling the local military. He is generous if and when it benefits him.