The Stoning of Soraya M.

The powerful and disturbing THE STONING OF SORAYA M., based on a true story, is about a contemporary small Iranian village whose inhabitants are quick to anger and even quicker to use the horrific practice of stoning a woman "proved" to be adulterous.  The proof against any woman in this village (and, apparently, in parts of the larger Iranian culture), consists of any three males agreeing that she did what others say she did.  The three men in this case are her abusive husband, who wants a new 14-year-old wife but can't afford two wives; a village widower for whom Soraya works, a job the village male elders pressed upon her; and the widower's son, presented as having less than usual abilities.  

Soraya's aunt tries to reason with the elders and, earlier, with Soroya, pleading with her to recognize the limits within which she lives.  Failing that, the aunt agrees to care for Soraya's two young daughters.  Soraya's two young sons have already been co-opted by her husband.

The stoning itself begins with Soraya's father, who has disowned her but who still has trouble hitting her with the three stones he throws.