The main character overhears a French women fighting off an American soldier attempting to rape her. We briefly see the soldier pushing the woman against a wall. The protagonist intervenes and threatens the soldier with a knife and he backs off. After this, she gets drunk and returns to her hotel room, and begins to tell her colleague about 'bad things that happen to women' and that a bad thing happened to her. Later, she is photographing the recently liberated Aushwitz and comes across a group of women sharing loaves of bread. Among them is a young girl who she quickly realizes is a victim of male violence. She attempts to show the girl she is a woman by revealing her long hair but the girl is terrified and backs away from her. Eventually the girl relaxes slightly and goes back to eating the bread. The protagonist takes her picture and refers to the girl later as a rape victim. Towards the end of the film, she reveals she was sexually assaulted as a child and that her mother told her 'never to tell anyone' so she did not.