To help with the moral challenges a modern urban vicar faces, Liam Neeson appears as God to guide Adam when he faces hostility from the neighbouring church.
And we see careful scenes of Naz's father struggling when he loses his cab because of the case and faces hostility from colleagues and members of his community.
Turkey is still a country where even the president's wife faces hostility for covering her head and Kurdish activists are put in jail on terrorism charges for advocating their nationalist cause.
And though at every point he faces hostility directed against his queerness, it also gives him access to a covert network of contacts, bound by an often secret sympathy.
His first season with the Dodgers is shoehorned into about ten minutes of screen time; there, he faces hostility from some of his teammates (who sign a petition against him and are taken to task for it by Rickey) as well as from players on opposing teams.
Beijing now faces hostility from protesters in Myanmar over large-scale infrastructure and mining projects there, and also faces intense competition from the United States as the Obama administration has embraced the politician Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and opened relations with the government.
