In one of the first scene of the movie, the main female protagonist is raped by the best friend of her late husband after he locked her in his basement. After that, when she explains 'regretting' the sexual relationship, he jokingly slaps her bottom. At multiple occasions throughout the film, the woman is later catcalled, groped, or put in threatening position by men. Near the end of the movie (taking place in World War II Italy), the main protagonist and her teenage daughter are beaten and raped by a group of soldiers. They are shown afterwards badly hurt and shocked, and the crime is dismissed by the superiors of the soldiers. After that, an adult man takes them both abord his truck, and explains that his girlfriend is 15 years old. It is implied that he then tried to seduce the daughter off-screen.