In a Lebanon village, women from both sides of the religious fence team up to wheedle sense into their tinderbox-tense men.

Five Lebanese women work, worry and muddle through all sorts of setbacks with wry perseverance and each other for support.

Zain, estimated age 12 and serving five years' jail time “because I stabbed a sonofabitch,” is suing his neglectful parents for giving birth to him.