A well-built college athlete poses for an art student's drawing, wearing a revealing track outfit. Later, he is shirtless in one of a handful of scenes in which they are making out. He expresses dismay that the girl's landlady is overly attentive to his physique as he poses. Both the landlady and her husband are affectionate toward the younger couple in a manner that implies a sexual attraction they indulge to compensate for their tired marriage.

A female college student becomes romantically involved with an athlete, even though she is almost engaged to another young man who is away.

A young woman struggles with a young man, fighting off an unwanted aggressive kiss, as she tries to decide how far she wants their relationship to proceed.

One use of the word "slut".

A man attacks his wife while drunk, chasing her in the kitchen with a knife and overturning a table to get at her. He starts to strangle her before collapsing due to his inebriation. Afterward, he struggles with two men who are trying to take him to a hospital.

A husband drunkenly calls his wife a slut twice.

One of the principal characters is a recovering alcoholic who attends meetings of Alcoholics Anonymous. He and his wife discuss his past drinking and violent episodes. Later, he disappears for a day in which he gets heavily drunk before returning home in an agitated state.

One of the main characters discusses her beloved dog which disappeared a few months earlier, and how she is trying to hold out hope for the dog's return.

A woman visits her husband in a hospital after he has been admitted for alcoholism; he is being kept in a locked ward where he and other patients are in various states of distress.