At the start of the film, a woman is hired to conceive a child. The couple spends three nights together. There are three sex scenes. The first and second are brief (and the first is the mildest in content), but they become more passionate. The third scene contains breast nudity and movement.

A man swims in a lake. When he emerges from the water it is revealed that he is completely nude. The scene is shot through a glass door that dirty and rippled. The image is blurry.

There are passionate kisses. The longing and desire between two people is a theme throughout the movie.

A fourth sex scene occurs in the latter half of the film. This contains kissing and breast nudity.

One use of the f-word as a sexual act.

Other infrequent profanity: b*st*rd, d*mn, the British idiom "bugger away"

Glasses of wine are shown and consumed at various dinners, parties, and balls.

The moral dilemmas surrounding euthanasia (mercy killing) are touched upon.

A scene of a near drowning.