While the film shows great passion and some very strong women, it also portrays a constant presence of infidelity on the part of both men and women.
The mother abuses her youngest daughter both physically and emotionally, attempted rape occurs, and someone catches on fire.
Constant sense of sexual tension, some overt moments of eroticism (but tasteful), male and female frontal nudity, and multiple instances of childbirth
Occasional drinking with meals and during rabblerousing by revolutionaries.