The gore is limited to small amounts of bleeding and brief shots of extensive blood. There is some violence as well, but much more implied or alleged violence. Some of it involves children and teenagers.
The part introducing the "shabiha" (or the "ghosts") includes footage of various men being assaulted: a closeup of a battered man whose hands are bound behind his back being beaten, slapped around and generally intimidated by a group of men; a closeup of a man bleeding from the face, laying faced down and held down by the foot of a gunman with shotgun pressing against the the captive's back, in the presence of multiple attackers; a wide-angle view of a man being beaten with batons wielded by multiple men, and kicked while down.
A closeup video of a child's very-singed face is shown, with the implication that he was among a number of teenagers who had been imprisoned by the state actors or regime-sanctioned thugs and severely mistreated, even tortured, while locked up, like being burned and sexually abused, enough for some of them to die from the injuries.
Many other clips of beatings in the streets are shown, with injured or dead civilians being dragged to safety or greater danger. Crowds of people run from unseen attackers. There is one brief clip of a man carefully aiming and firing a rifle. A rectilinear mosaic of videos of dead bodies, including those of small children and the elderly, is shown.
Footage of urban explosions from air-to-ground missile strikes is shown, with scenes of men running away from anticipated strike zones at the men try to utilize radio telecommunications quickly enough not to be pinpointed. The tiny winds generated from the sonic movements of jet aircraft can be heard in the background. Occasional rifle discharges can be heard as well.
In an interview, a teenage girl speaks of Bashar al-Assad meeting the same fate as Muammar Gaddafi.
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