A man makes a comment about the motel at which a woman is staying, implying the hotel is seedy and by association that she is also.

During warm weather, a farm hand works clearing a field bare-chested. The wife of the farm owner brings him a beer and obviously is admiring his physique. At night, she enters his shack where he sleeps. She reclines on his bed and then makes a pass at him as they stand in the dark, but he rejects her advance.

As a woman lays on a bed, she reaches up toward her boyfriend to bring him closer. We see him reach down to meet her embrace and then the scene cuts. This possibly could be interpreted to imply sex.

A man takes a swing at another man who ducks and punches him in the stomach; the first man sinks to his knees. Later as a man is heard to be physically abusing his wife and then his shotgun falls from the rack and accidentally discharges, hitting him in the shoulder; some blood is seen. She is seen to have some blood on her mouth.

In a bar, men are seen to be drinking beer. A woman sitting alone is seen to be drinking wine but appears drunk. She is revealed to be a chronic alcoholic. Later in the film, she is able to stop drinking and try to get well.

A farm owner is seen to threaten people with his shotgun on several occasions, even holding a man at gunpoint but then claiming the gun to be to be "not loaded." When his victim grabs the gun away, he proves him to be a liar when he shoots the gun in the air.