Grace is a highly repressed young woman struggling with horrific panic attacks. She's been cultivated by her family and society to behave "properly", recently engaged and living in the city Grace works as a model and has been trained to move and speak and think in the era's idealized manner. Throughout the process of the film Grace begins to discover who she truly is. The film starts with her 21st birthday, could be played by someone in the 18-25 age range.

Aurora is deeply intelligent and caring. She works as a therapist out of her home clinic in her cottage where she lives alone. Spends most of her free time writing and reading, or fixing up her cottage and the surrounding area. Aurora is very self motivated and always willing to learn and experiment with new techniques in order to grow as a therapist.

Jim is very charismatic, determined and book-smart. He uses his charisma to achieve both his professional and personal goals. Was the captain of the high school football team and now works a highly successful job as an architect in the city. Has a subtle domineering quality in an almost charming way.

Iris is the sweet, naive younger sister of Grace. Iris idolizes Grace, models her personality after her. She is the quietest member of the Jacobs family, and in a simple way very empathetic. Unable to handle negative emotion in any kind of tense atmosphere she simply ignores and focuses on "happy" things.

Sidney is certainly the patriarch of the Jacobs family. Charismatic though domineering, he expects the best of his family and wont entertain any other possibilities - however not in a overtly abusive or loud way. Usually good natured and easy to get along with, he considers himself much smarter than he is and tends to put on an air of a higher level of success than he's ever actually obtained.

David has lost himself to addiction and has all ties to his family and friends in the process. He hasn't taken any responsibility for his behavior. Now he finds himself in an emotionally vulnerable state after he accidentally kills a kid in a drug bender.

Joshua is an old family friend from David's past. He's a family man that's compassionate and that has helped countless recovering addicts in their process of self-betterment. He wants to help David.

Introverted young boy with an ambition to succeed in the outer world beyond the confines of his cultural capacity. He has a desire to be independent but has no knowledge about his direction. He seems aimless yet steadfast in his principles. They are part of his identity and the only things he’s sure about until they are challenged by his own fellow countryman. Omar is introverted; self-confident, but a frail sense of it, patient, obedient, open minded, curious, withdrawn in unfamiliar situations, awkward, and emotionally attached to his parents and all associated with his parents.

Sam is a quick thinking, aggressively adamant young man who has an urge to coerce his reality into his own beliefs. Though he tries to hide it, his life is built on unwelcomed experiences. He feels like he’s not in control but has all the knowledge to succeed. He believes in good being equivalent to freedom and rules that aren’t self serving to be bad. He’s practical and opposes the idealist in Omar and justifies it as the only way to succeed in life. To him, ideals may remain but idealists die and pragmatism is an evolutionary skill derived from bare survivalism. Sam is charismatic, quick thinking, knowledgeable, argumentative and insensitively intolerant to what he believes to be simply false.

Sophie is a free spirit or at least desires to be. She takes life as a collection of moments to be cherished along with the people around her as rarities. She’s curious and observant and extremely energetic and cannot help but exude love and care. However, her strengths are retained by an absolute awareness of how dreary life could be without them. Hence, she tries to balance on a wire thin reality underneath which every discarded and unwanted memories lay but are also the essential foundations of her personality.

Darya is one of Sophie's best friend who takes a keen interest in Omar. She is quite transparent about her feelings and headstrong in her approach. She's not afraid to get hurt but leads herself into situations where her plate gets too full.

Omar’s father is a traditionalist who is unfamiliar with unconditional love. He believes in rules and its maintenance by the elderly. He believes the truths are preserved from the past and that the world has lost a sense of direction due to its yearning for freedom. As a result, the world has gained freedom from a once definitive and known direction as well. He believes in rights and responsibilities of people, over themselves and to others, and the necessity to heed by them. His conditions permeate into everything associated with him and has instead created a distancing awe between him and his son.