Babel

“If you want to be understood... listen.”

The film begins in the Moroccan desert, where Richard (Brad Pitt) and Susan Jones (Cate Blanchett) are on vacation when tragedy strikes. From there it cuts between Morocco, Japan, Mexico and the United States, tying four families together. Alejandro G. Iñárritu follows Chieko (Rinko Kikuchi), a deaf teenager in Tokyo, and Amelia (Adriana Barraza), a nanny in California, each alone with her own trouble.