Plot revolves around an unwitnessed rape and murder of a young woman. The aftermath is seen with the partly naked body of the young woman laying on a floor beneath a blanket. Nothing explicit is shown.

As black soldier protects a solitary woman at a train depot from renegade Indians, he insists she stay in the next room so as to prevent any future accusations of sexual assault by others, even though gut-shot, he is in no condition to do such.

A dead young man is found staked and tortured by Indians in the desert. The body is not shown but simply described by the actors' reactions and recoils.

The term n-word is used in emotional testimony on the stand by the accused protagonist.