As a young boy the main character witnessed his friend getting raped by a older boy. Altough the scene isn't to graphic it's still very disturbing.

A young boy is beaten, restrained, and raped by a larger bully. It however is depicting more implicitly than graphically. The boy is held down and his pants are pulled off; we then briefly see an older boy thrusting on top of him and moaning, and the victim's pained face. The boy is later seen with blood dripping from his trousers.

A Soviet soldier requires a woman to have sex with him in order for a truck to pass, but the scene never happens.

There's a brief scene of a woman being stoned to death as a halftime show during a soccer match. Patches of blood are shown on her body. Very disturbing.

There is a brief implication that a man is using a young boy as a sex slave; the man forces the boy to dance suggestively for him before they are interrupted.

Assef uses the word fag against Hassan and Amir when confronting them.

Three uses of "fuck" and a couple of characters do say derogatory comments to or about people of Hazara descent. (E.g., bully making fun of a Hazara boy; the father in law of the main character is not particularly pleased with a Hazara boy coming into his family.)

There are scenes of a father smoking and drinking alcohol with his friend.

Very intense and emotional.