The tragic aftermath of human carelessness travels around the world in this multi-narrative drama from filmmaker Alejandro González Ińárritu. Richard (Brad Pitt) and Susan (Cate Blanchett) are a couple from the United States who have traveled to Morocco in Northern Africa on a vacation after the death of one of their children has sent Susan into a deep depression. Richard and Susan's other two children have been left in the care of Amelia (Adriana Barraza), their housekeeper. Amelia is originally from Mexico, and has learned that her oldest son is getting married in Tijuana. Unable to find someone who can watch the kids, Amelia takes them with her as she travels across the border for the celebration. Meanwhile, in Morocco a poor farmer is given a gift of a fancy hunting rifle, and he gives it to his sons to scare off the predatory animals that have been thinning out their goat herd. The boys playfully shoot at a bus far away; the shot hits Susan in the shoulder, and soon she's bleeding severely, while police are convinced the attack is the work of terrorists. In Japan, Chieko (Rinko Kikuchi) is a teenaged girl who can neither hear nor speak. Her inability to communicate with the world around her has caused her to act out in a variety of ways, from throwing a volleyball game at her school to exposing herself in public. Chieko's father struggles to reach past the emotional distance which separates him and his daughter, in time leading them to visit Morocco.
Born on August 15, 1963 in Mexico City (Mexico), Alejandro González Ińárritu comes with a film that is at once intimate and epic, shot in four countries, cast with actors and non-actors, and concludes his `Death trilogy’ that started with Amores Perros and 21 Grams.
