Rape and sexual assault is present throughout the film, usually when men attack and pillage villages (they are shown violently taking women in order to rape them off-screen: they are shown struggling and crying). Most female characters are slaves who are regularly sexually abused by men off-screen. It is implied during most of the movie that the protagonist's mother has been coerced into a marriage by her late husband's brother. It is eventually revealed that it was in fact her late husband who took her as a wife when she was a slave, and that the protagonist is the product of a rape. During that scene, she kisses her adult son and promises to be his queen if he kills all her family.