Dante is a recent business graduate who works in a bookstore and lives in a large Rio de Janeiro apartment with his three childhood friends. Frustrated by his lack of financial independence and stalled ambitions, he searches for a way to achieve the wealth he feels he deserves. He acts as the host and administrator for the group's illicit dinner parties, attempting to distance himself from the brutality of their actions through professional management and spreadsheets.

Piglet is a computer prodigy and college dropout who runs minor internet scams from his bedroom in the shared Copacabana apartment. He maintains a deep attachment to religion and constructs a highly idealized version of his life in letters to his late mother. His decision to create a joke advertisement for human meat on a secret dining website sets the group's gruesome enterprise in motion.

Hugo is a talented chef who feels the culinary world fails to recognize his genius. He despises his humble origins in the rural town of Pingo d'Água and craves prestige, recognition, and wealth in Rio de Janeiro. His culinary skills provide the foundation for the group's dinners, and he approaches the preparation of controversial meat with unsettling enthusiasm and artistic pride.

Cora is an assertive and pragmatic sex worker who grew up working in her father's slaughterhouse. She views the world through a highly transactional lens, easily separating physical acts from emotional attachment. Her background in animal processing makes her indispensable to the group, as she approaches the dismemberment of human bodies with detached, professional efficiency.

Miguel is an exhausted medical resident struggling to afford recurring cancer treatments for his mother, Hilda. He serves as the group's moral center, frequently objecting to their descent into crime and citing his professional oath to save lives. Despite his deep ethical reservations, overwhelming financial desperation and loyalty force him into reluctant complicity.

Umberto is an eccentric socialite from an old-money family whose wealth allows him to pursue extreme and taboo experiences. He quickly recognizes the enterprise's financial potential and proposes a formal business partnership, offering his family's chain of crematoriums as a steady source of bodies. He intellectualizes the horrific crimes with pretentious speeches about capitalism, overpopulation, and the food chain.

Arthur is a pharmacist desperately searching for his missing fiancée, Ruth, an investigative journalist who vanished while looking into underground dining events. Driven by grief, he conducts a methodical investigation into her disappearance, following the cryptic notes she left behind at her desk. He forms a bond with Dante, unaware of the full extent of Dante's connection to Ruth's fate.

Hilda is Miguel's controlling mother who assists the young men by paying the three-month security deposit on their Copacabana apartment. She battles recurring cancer, a condition that places immense financial and emotional pressure on her son and heavily influences his moral compromises.

Heitor is a real-estate agent in Rio de Janeiro. He connects the young men with a surprisingly affordable apartment in a "gray area" between gang territories, and later returns to inform them of their massive overdue rent balance, triggering their desperate financial crisis.

Kássio is a wealthy dinner guest who initially refuses to eat the controversial main course but is forced to consume it at gunpoint. He later causes a massive security crisis for the enterprise by posting a photograph of his meal on Instagram with a damning hashtag.

Gustavo is an elite thrill-seeker who attends the inaugural dining event. He expresses extreme hesitation when the main course is served, prompting a dangerous confrontation that forces Dante to employ quick thinking to resolve the situation.

Rachel is Miguel's girlfriend. She grows increasingly frustrated and suspicious of his erratic behavior, deep exhaustion, and the dark secrets he clearly keeps from her, causing heavy strain on their relationship.

Madam Adélia is Piglet's deceased mother who ran a brothel in the small town of Pingo d'Água. While Piglet remembers her as a pious and devout woman, local rumors suggest she engaged in dark and violent practices at her establishment before dying in a fire.

Ruth is an investigative journalist and Arthur's fiancée. She recently recovered from blindness and disappears while researching a dangerous story about secret underground dining events, leaving behind only a few cryptic notes.

Cecília is Umberto's lawyer who handles the legal and logistical arrangements for the expanding dining enterprise. She secures the luxury villa in Jardim Botânico for the operation and possesses deep knowledge of the organization's true hierarchy.

Detective Amóz is a highway patrol investigator looking into an accident involving an unhoused man. He represents the ever-present threat of law enforcement closing in on the group's activities, though his true loyalties and methods are highly suspect.