The extent of the violence is a woman punching a man in his face, and there is also some mild melee contact involving children, including an adult tugging a child by the arm. The extent of the gore is a small jet blood from a bleeding child, along with scenes of one child or another with bruises around the neck or arm, and a child with tiny lacerations or bruises on his face. There are also various scenes of a child sustaining self-inflicted injuries, being accidentally roughed-up, setting fires or breaking household fixtures.
A woman and a young boy work on trying to release and save a choking little boy who has accidentally hanged himself by the neck from a tall tree.
A child uses a pocket knife or shaving razor to quickly cut the part of his breast muscle near his shoulder, and a small jet of blood squirts onto another child who immediately faints. He also cringes and sobs a bit momentarily, and the part of his shirt near the wound is blood-soaked. His wound, a five-centimeter gash, later shown being stitched closed.
A group of children maliciously stare at a limping, injured child across the street, and one of them throws a small rock at him, striking him in the back. Afterward, a child walks toward and shoves a smaller child to the ground, standing over him in a threatening manner.
A little girl is approached and briefly accosted by a possibly drunken man who then kicks her bicycle down, before storming off.
A hanging deer carcass can be briefly seen, and it hangs in such a way that the body vaguely looks crucified.
There is a very brief scuffle between two children that ends with the smaller child pinned to the ground, the smaller having tried to ambush the larger from behind.
A little boy lightly slaps a little girl across her cheek.
It's implied in multiple scenes and mentioned in one scene that one of the children is being abused, regularly beaten, at home.