The world is a mysterious place when seen through the eyes of an animal. EO, a grey donkey with melancholic eyes, meets good and bad people on his life’s path, experiences joy and pain, endures the wheel of fortune randomly turn his luck into disaster and his despair into unexpected bliss. But not even for a moment does he lose his innocence.
This movie contains 17 potentially triggering events.
At the end of the film the main character, EO the donkey, wanders into a herd of "free range" cows and calfs being led into a slaughterhouse. You don't see them killed, but you hear the thud of the killing blow.
The donkey is whipped several times by a circus worker.
Possible implied animal abuse when a group protesting circus animals show up.
A group of soccer players having a party bring the donkey into the bar. The donkey has smoke blown in its face multiple times. The rival soccer group comes to attack the partying team and comes across the donkey outside. They beat him, mostly off camera, but the results are shown in a later scene.
A man removes animals from cages before killing them (offscreen). The bodies are shown piled on a cart that the donkey is carrying.
A character has their throat slit on screen. A few close up shots of blood on the donkey. The donkey kicks a character backwards and blood is shown coming from his head.