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Sex & Nudity

  • A woman kisses a woman. It is unwanted, but not forced. Tension about this relationship continues as part of the plot.
  • A woman fantasizes about kissing a married man while he invites her over for dinner. Later she and another woman refer to him as, "The Groper."
  • Sex scene involving a man and a woman. She appears rigid as well as uncomfortable, nervous, etc. No nudity.
  • Allusions to a woman's conflicted thoughts about masturbation before bed, using a douche after sex for birth control.
  • A man and woman are seen in bed, talking after sex. They are covered by sheets.

Violence & Gore

Profanity

  • A woman shames her 35-year-old daughter for having a sex life; verbal abuse briefly follows.

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • Frequent drinking and smoking by adult characters.
  • Drunk characters in conversation. A woman who believes she may be pregnant is shown drinking.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • An intense church meeting leaves a woman overwhelmed and visibly shaken.
  • A mortician handles the bodies of deceased children (polio) in a medical manner. Images of the deceased (child and adult) in coffins, themes of mortality and death. At one point, a child hides from her father inside a wicker coffin.
  • A woman struggles with apparent social anxiety, hypochondria, and isolation. At times she has disturbing daydreams where she fantasizes about things like jumping out of a window. Her narrated inner thoughts are frequently conflicted or self loathing.
  • A woman struggles with whether she will ever have children.

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Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • A woman believes she is pregnant and grapples with whether to have an abortion.

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