Marcello Mastroianni appears shirtless in several different scenes. In one case, he is implicitly naked, but only the upper part of his body is shown.

The female protagonist is a prostitute, and at the beginning of the film, she is seen offering her services on the street alongside another prostitute.

The film contains three sex scenes, the first of which is rape. In the first two cases, only the faces of the man and woman are shown; in the third case, not even that.

A teenage boy gets caught masturbating in a movie theater to Rita Hayworth. No nudity is shown.

A bound man is thrown into the water by two gangsters, but it is shown that he survived.

A woman gets repeatedly threatened with a razor and a gun.

In many (approximately 10) different scenes, the protagonist is beaten by her boyfriend. Mostly he slaps her, but he also throws shoes and other objects at her. In one flashback, she is shown in the hospital with fractures of her leg, arm, and head, and bruises on her face.

The protagonist fantasizes about her death-she is seen bound, with duct-taped mouth, holding dynamite in both hands, which explodes at the end of the scene. The consequences are not shown.

Before the end of the film, there is a somewhat chaotic action sequence in which a man on the roof of a moving car shoots at the men inside the car and vice versa. Several other people are injured during this action, but apparently not seriously, and no one dies.

Expressive, sometimes vulgar language. It's mostly name-calling.

A lot of cigarette and cigar smoking and less frequent alcohol drinking. No drug abuse.