MAY OUI: A frustrated French beauty who is down and out in Santa Fe, she is an actress going nowhere fast. May Oui plunges into existential angst and is about to do something desperate when, at the last moment, a chance encounter with Nick and his aunt changes her life forever.

KRISTIN: A reporter for the Santa Fe Hot Spot, she always sits in the café’s corner booth, tapping away at her laptop, seeking the big story that can save the world. Kristin knows the town’s dirtiest secrets—and she isn’t above sharing them. But what she doesn’t know is that she is sitting on the biggest scoop of her life—as the city faces doom at midnight.

EDUARDO: By day he is an artist but by night, the passionate, sultry Eduardo becomes an escort to foxy older women left home alone by their powerful husbands. Among those husbands are mafia bosses, movie producers and a congressman with something to hide. When a client tells Eduardo of a secret conspiracy, he turns to Nick for advice.

HIRO: With the body of a pro wrestler and the mind of a Buddhist sage, he is the trainer and lifestyle coach to Santa Fe’s beautiful people and a massage therapist at the famous Million Moons Spa. Hiro’s grandfather worked on a mysterious secret project during World War Two and he must talk with Nick about this secret before midnight.

HELGA: A leggy German blonde, she is on a mission to find out what her grandfather scientist was up to during World War Two at Las Alanoose Labs. She knows that he was onto the discovery of a lifetime—that would either save or sabotage humanity. To kill time, she puts on political puppet shows and waits tables at the café.

AUNT NICOLE: To the cafe’s young customers, she is wise, worldly and sexy Aunt Nicole, a New-Agey earth mother and pool shark rolled into one. Once a big shot on the pro pool circuit, now she’s content to part hippies from their hundred dollar bills, then realign their energy by throwing the I Ching under the dreamcatcher. Her third marriage—to one of Santa Fe’s richest men—recently ended tragically and mysteriously. Ah, the secrets she could tell. And will.

CRISP: A handsome, salt and pepper-haired, body-builder-type who has come to Santa Fe on some type of mission.

HUD: A handsome, dark-haired, body-builder-type with an interest in palmistry, tea leaf reading, and astrology.