Due to the main characters in this movie - a middle-aged man and a 16-year-old girl - there is frequent speculation and discussion by other characters about the nature of their relationship, which is actually strictly platonic and unromantic. The girl says that her mother's boyfriend rapes her every night. This is later revealed to be false. A pedophile makes several salacious comments to the man regarding the girl: the main character chokes him to death. There is a mention of 'boys raping their mothers' during a movie watched by the protagonists.