A man is abusive to his wife. He beats her (off screen) and later she is seen with a bruise around her is. Later in the film, he punches his wife, knocking out her tooth causing her mouth to become bloody; then he puts his hands around her neck and begins to strangle her in front of a child.

A mother becomes abusive to her daughters. She slaps here eldest daughter across the face and beats her with a hair brush. In a later scene, the mother pushes her eldest daughter into a chair and then urges her to stand up again and then slaps her across the face; the daughter then slaps her mother back.

The mother is more abusive to her youngest daughter; she hits her youngest daughter on the forehead with mug, knocking her of the kitchen chair. The mother gets into a violent temper in a later scene when she smashes a plate and picks her youngest daughter by the ear and pushers her onto the bed where she brutally beats her with a belt. Blood is visible.

The mother hits her son on the back of the head.

Brief uses of the words "bastard", "damn" and "tramp".

The lead character of the film is an alcoholic and is often seen drinking. She also smokes a lot of cigarettes. The lead character's husband is also an alcoholic.

There is a lot of violence in the film. A woman being beaten and the violent abuse of two young girls all of which is under the consumption of alcohol.