An American couple visit Morocco, but when one of them is accidentally shot, an international crisis ensues. Their Mexican maid, who was left to watch the children, encounters difficulty crossing the border after her son's wedding, while in Tokyo, a deaf mute girl, whose father has a connection to the man responsible for the shooting, struggles to cope with her mother's suicide. Drama, starring Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett and Gael Garcia Bernal.

Tragedy strikes a married couple vacationing in the Moroccan desert, which jumpstarts an interlocking story involving four different families.