A woman says that she has five thousand euros in cash for ransom to pay smugglers who are holding her daughter in a boat; she and a man argue several times and she hits him on the shoulder several times with a frying pan; a kidnapper, whose arms and upper chest are tattooed with faces and roses, threatens them both for additional money and holds a handgun on them in a cafe; the woman hits the gunman and they fall, struggling, but the kidnapper grabs the fallen gun and tells the other man and the woman to go and bring back more money.
We hear that a young boy nearly died of suffocation from a dry cleaner's plastic bag; his mother is blamed for child neglect and argues continually about not being allowed visitation rights; she cries violently and screams in her ex-husband's apartment, while he accuses her of mental illness and drags her to the doorway by her ankle, upsetting furniture and wrinkling the carpeting; their child runs after them, the man's girlfriend pushes the man into a wall, and the mother takes the boy and runs away into an elevator (while hugging the boy); the man runs down dark, dirty stairs, falls into piles of trash, and finds the boy alone in the elevator, unharmed.
We hear that in two incidents, a little boy and a little girl drowned in backyard swimming pools of fathers who took a cell phone call instead of watching the children.
A woman drives erratically though a pedestrian-only piazza, but no one is harmed.
A woman bites a man lightly on his clothed forearm before they have sex (please see the Sex/Nudity category for more details) and later that day she bites his clothed shoulder lightly.
A little boy calls out "Yuk!" twice about his father's painting with his hands, then shouts at his father and rubs his own hand full of blue paint down an expensive painting.
A woman walks into a room containing hundreds of white roses and becomes tearful, then another woman enters the room later, and breaks most of the glass vases with a vacuum cleaner that she swings into them; she sits in shattered glass (we see no blood).
Several men and women throw cell phones onto hard surfaces, breaking them; one phone lands in a pot of cold water on a counter and loses power.
A woman throws a man's watch into a sink of water, trying to destroy it, but it still works.
A woman cries loudly and argues with her attorney, friends and ex-husband in many scenes.
A male and a woman make many sarcastic remarks to each other, like when he asks her if she is trying to kill him by making him walk on a staircase and she implies that he is old; he says that he loves her and then says that he does not love her; he asks a hotel clerk if the woman appears to be armed, and they argue often and loudly about books, writing, his estranged wife and her long-time male friend.
A man argues loudly with business partners on a cell phone.
A man argues with his publisher and editor about his book.
A woman cries loudly in her boyfriend's arms as he lays her, clothed, to rest after a visit to another man (please see the Sex/Nudity category for more details).
On Italian TV in a bar, we see large flames in the background behind a female reporter speaking about a bombing; people in the bar shout that a purse someone left behind must be a bomb and they run into the street, arguing about it and a man in the street takes a child's shoe from the purse while another man shouts that it must be a shoe bomb, but it is not.