An unhappy traveling-circus clown and expectant father whom Rudy meets at the hospital on the stormy night of Jimmy’s birth.

Jimmy’s father, who divides his hospital vigil between his expectant wife and his dying father, Josef, during a violent storm.

Jimmy’s grandfather, a pastry chef who briefly regains coherent speech after a stroke and predicts five terrible days before dying.

A fellow hostage Jimmy meets during a bank robbery; he gradually realizes that he is falling for her amid the crisis.

Konrad and Natalie Beezo’s newborn son, named in anticipation that he will continue his father’s tradition of circus clowning.

Konrad’s wife, a renowned trapeze artist from a prominent family, who is also in labor at the hospital when Jimmy is born.

Konrad’s father-in-law and the vain, sadistic patriarch of a world-famous acrobatic clan whose influence extends over both central families.