A man argues with an older man, pushes him against a wall and drives to a cornfield where he confronts another man: the two men fight with many punches and chokeholds, they roll into the cornfield and struggle until one man picks up a hammer from the ground and hits the other man in the temple; the stricken man stares, we see a small amount of blood on his head and he falls dead; the killer and another man dump the body and the hammer into a cistern.
A new NASACAR-type driver gets rammed several times by other cars, panics and backs off the accelerator; he leaves the track, get into his car, drives through a cornfield and into a large tree trunk in a suicide attempt, the car smokes and his head rests on the steering wheel as the camera cuts to a hospital room where he lies under a sheet in bed, his lip cut and his nose and forehead bruised; nurses check several tubes and IV bags as he watches listlessly and he goes home in a few days and walks with a cane for a short time.
A man removes a handgun from the glove compartment of his friend's car as they pull up to a strip mall; the man exists the car, shoots out the shop window causing alarms to go off, runs into the store and steals something, runs back out and the two drive away.
A man and a woman throw rocks at another woman's door at night; she runs out and catches the woman, who turns around, slaps her in the face and calls her a whore before leaving.
Corporate investigators threaten a farmer twice with loss of land and prison time if they are not allowed into his fields and his bookkeeping records without a warrant; in one scene, another man present shouts at the agents, bashing out their car headlights with a cane and the investigators leave.
A man sits in a car arguing with his adult son about attending a graveside funeral; they walk to the graveside, where we see a coffin and mourners as a pastor gives a prayer.
We see a memorial service with a pastor giving a prayer for another dead man in the town, while a few people cry silently and a few people are shown mourning in a café later.
A man and his adult son argue many times throughout the film about occupations, ethics, and their relationship.
A man argues briefly a few times with his wife and with his father and his father curses.
A man argues loudly with a farmer over land prices and with a friend about genetically modified grains.
A demolition derby features shouting, dirt clouds and a car crash wherein one car flips end-over-end and then along its axis to land on its top; the driver emerges unharmed and starts a fistfight with another driver, but track officials pull the men apart.
A man studies demolition derby videos and sees many cars flip sideways, or end over end into big clouds of smoke and flames.
A woman tells a man that genetically modified seed companies sound like the Mafia, because they show up unannounced at farmer's fields in black cars and without warrants.
