In the first part of the movie (about twenty minutes in), taking place during the Armenian genocide, a woman is raped on-screen by a soldier in front of her child and a group of prisoners who are unable to help her. This implies that many women were identically raped during the same period. The protagonist's daughters (teenagers) are said to have been part of an arranged marriage. Near the end of the movie, a woman is verbally assaulted by a group of railroad workers: one of them attempt to rape her. The protagonist intervenes and allows her to escape: he is beaten up by the rest of the group.