Penance (2012)

The story of the series is about a young girl who was in her school raped and murdered and her mother who tries to solve the chase. In the whole series are themes of sex addiction, teenage prostitution, fetish, sexual abuse and rape, of both children and adults, depicted. Although not particular graphic most of these scenes are emotional intense and shocking. No nudity is shown.

Prologue: It's implied that a girl is raped (see also "violence & gore").

Chapter One: A young woman suffers from the sexual fetish of his husband. No nudity is shown.

Chapter Two: Nothing.

Chapter Three: It's implied that a young woman was raped by her older brother when she was a child. It's implied that a young man abuses the daughter of his wife. A man gives a school girl some money, it's implied they both had sex in a love hotel. The girl is about 13 years old. In one scene the man touches a young girl of about eight years in a sexual intended manner, she is clothed. Later the man plays with the same girl in bed and tickles her, they are both clothed. He uses force to kiss her and it's strongly implied that he tries to rape her. He is interrupted (see "violence & gore").

Chapter Four: A young woman, she owns a flower shop, has an affair with her married supplier (it's mentioned but never shown). The man tries to have sex with the woman in her flower shop. He presses his body against hers, but she refuses. They are both clothed. The same woman is sexual attracted by cops. She seduces the husband of her older sister while she is not at home and let her brother-in-law impregnate her. The sex is shown briefly but only from the shoulders up. Later the act is discussed but not in detail. The same woman, now she's visibly pregnant, tells an older woman, that she will tell her a secret if she could have sex with her husband. It never happens.

Chapter Five: A love triangle between university students is mentioned. A woman tells her husband, that their daughter is not his child. She says that after their marriage she had once sex with her ex-lover. Later it's mentioned that the man raped her. A woman tries to strangle a man, but he turns her over and tries to rape her. He is stopped.

The violence in this movie is, although more mentally than physically, emotionally intense and shocking. The violence is often sexually and involving young children. Some scenes contain blood. No gore.

Prolouge: It's implied, that a young girl is raped and killed. The dead body of the girl is shown from a distance. No details can be seen. A girl falls down on the floor, later she is seen with a bleeding nose.

Chapter one:

A man is repeatingly hitting a young girl on the floor, killing her. The scene cuts and a broken doll is shown. A young women is sexual abused by her husband. He has a perversive fetish. A young woman gets her menstrual period, some blood runs down her legs and poors on the floor. Her husband is not happy and tells her she has to stand the whole night in her own blood. A young woman kills her husband. Offscreen.

Chapter Two: A man stabs a teacher in a swimming class. Blood is shown. A young woman hits the man with a bamboo stab till he falls unconscious into the swimming pool. He survives. A man punches a young woman in the stomach. A young woman hits her kendo-sparring violently. No injury is shown, but this scene is violently intense. A man pushes a young woman on the ground. She seems to be injured. Blood flushes out of her nose and she dies slowly.

Chapter Three: It is implied that a man has his younger sister sexual abused as she was a child. It is implied that man is sexual abusing the daughter of his wife. No detail shown. A man tries to rape a young girl but his sister stops him. She strangles him. He is dying slowly, the scene is intense.

Chapter Four: A pregnant woman is lying on the floor in premature labor. An older woman waits to call an ambulance and explains the woman that she will have a misscarriage if she didn't call. After a short moment she calls the ambulance. A woman tries to kill herself by taking an overdose of sleeping pills. Not shown but mentioned. Later the woman is seen in her bed. She survives. A pregnant woman pushes a man down the stairs. He is seen falling the whole way down. Later it's mentioned that he died.

Chapter Five: A woman tries to kill the murderer of her daughter. She tries to strangle him, but he turns her over and tries to rape her. She can escape. It is mentioned that a woman was raped by her ex-lover. A woman tells a man that he raped (this is implied) and killed his own daughter. A commits suicide. A train hits him. Graphic but not bloody.

Mature topics are discussed and mentioned but no profanity.

It is mentioned that a woman tried to kill herself by taking an overdose of sleeping pills. She survived and is seen later weak in bed.

The whole series is incredibly intense. The story is about the rape and the murder of a young girl, chold abuse and sexual fetishes is shocking, the conclusion might disturb. The tone is dark and in the last three episodes there are elements of horror movies.