Gina Pareño is Amelita or "Amy" Basmayor, the diligent but aging jueteng bet collector; sometimes she also serves as the alms collector for the dead; her character grimly defines the miserable plight of the Filipino poor who, just like in the illegal numbers game that she sells, play games of luck and survival everyday; on All Saint's Day, Amy is lucky to survive a fatal bullet wound from a road rage between two erring drivers inside the cemetery.

Soliman Cruz is the the brazen police chief who invites Amy in the police headquarters after she is apprehended by his men; he places his jueteng bets with Amy whom he trusts would keep it a "secret".

Nanding Josef is the the parish priest who occassionally asks Amy, together with the other women and bet collectors in the community, to collect donations for the dead; his name is in the pay roll of the jueteng treasurer.

Johnny Manahan plays the jueteng treasurer with a dry humor; he serves as the conduit between the bet collectors and the gambling lords. He collects all the earnings of the jueteng draws everyday that amounts to millions of pesos; he despises politicians and the religous who are the ones benefitting from the illegal numbers games.

Jhong Del Rosario is Eric, the dead soldier son of Amelita. His ghost occasionally appears whenever Amelita is burdened with everyday problems; he is her alter-ego; her "sanity".

Nico Antonio plays the young bet collector, Baste. He accompanies Amy in one of the cladestine draws of jueteng ; a former basketball teammate of Eric when the latter was still alive.

Fonz Deza is the inutile husband of Amy who can't even help Amy tend to their small grocery store at home; he fails to give Amy a neighbor's bet that won the day's draw.

Elmo Redrico is Amy's "kabo" or handler; he usually attends the jueteng draw, but when he got sick one day, he lets Amy attend a draw instead; he always bails out his bet collectors whenever they are apprehended by the police.