The Stoning of Soraya M.

When a deadly conspiracy became a shameful cover-up One witness refused to be silent

A harrowing true-story indictment of religious fundamentalism and patriarchal violence, centered on a woman's unjust execution and the moral cowardice that enables it.

In 1986 Iran, Sahebjam, whose car breaks down in a remote village, enters into a conversation with Zahra, who relays to him the story about her niece, Soraya, whose arranged marriage to an abusive tyrant ended in tragedy.