A married man, a priest and an ex soldier are attracted to the wife of a traveling entertainer passing through town. Each has sexual encounter with her, varying from ankle massage, fondling and sexual assault/implied rape.

Bare-chested men are shown lounging by and swimming in the river. The protagonist removes his swimsuit outdoors and is briefly completely nude. Brief distant male full rear nudity is seen. Inside a caravan, a woman changing clothes briefly shows her bare breast.

A crowd attacks the caravan and the priest who walks out. He ends up with a lacerated ear lobe. It is shown being sewn together with a fair amount of bleeding. A man physically heckles the tightrope walker to the point of knocking him off his high wire, causing him to fall and injure his back.

Many men including the protagonist smoke cigars. Social wine consumption.