Cabrini

Glimpses of several dead bodies. People of all ages (including children) die of sickness and exposure. Sex worker Vittoria warns the nuns about her pimp, Geno, who nearly knocks down a door and threatens the nuns more than once. Geno also brutally beats Vittoria more than once, nearly killing her the second time. A child shoots a man but doesn't kill him. A character fatally stabs another character. Mother Cabrini is frail and sickly, and there are several flashbacks to the moment she nearly drowned as a child. An explosion at a coal plant leads to many injuries and sad deaths. Police officers break up an Italian festival and arrest and injure citizens. Arguments.

Language includes many ethnic slurs and epithets, especially those used against Italians ("dago," "wop," "guinea," "monkey," "dirty," "filthy"), the Irish ("mick"), Poles ("Polack"), and Jews ("kike"). Xenophobic comments include "speak English," "go back to Five Points," "puffed-up nun," "we don't do business with people like you," "go to the hospital that treats you people," "drink like a good Irishman." Other words include "whore," "hooker," "bitch," "hell" (in English subtitles for U.S. release) and British use of "bloody."

Adults smoke cigarettes, and some people in Five Points drink and smoke at a pub. The mayor drinks hard liquor and forces the archbishop to drink up. He also offers Mother Cabrini a drink.

Vittoria talks about having been a sex worker since she was a young girl.

Takes place in late 19th century United States, when Italian immigrants were widely discriminated against due to their darker skin color, Catholic religion, and poverty. Even though Mother Cabrini doesn't always have agency (e.g., where and when she's ordered by the Catholic Church hierarchy), she's brave and refuses to be cowed by powerful men. She doesn't let her disability (she's sickly and frail) keep her from following her mission. Director Alejandro Monteverde is Mexican American.