Chapter 2, "Franklin", features a flashback scene in which two sailors, implied to be in their 30s, engage in a sexual relationship (separately) with a teenaged Inuk girl. Worthy of note: a lone Inuit woman lives for a time on a ship inhabited by exclusively male sailors. The fact that she needs to be protected from these sailors is occasionally discussed; this is partially due to the fact that some of them believe her to be evil/a witch, but it is implied that there is also some possibility of sexual violence.