The story begins on a fine summer's morning, when Sang-woo (Yoo Seung-ho) and his mother board a bus to the country. It is soon clear that the unsophisticated rural passengers annoy the seven-year-old urban boy. His mother is taking him to live with his 75-year-old mute, but not deaf, grandmother (Kim Eul-boon) while she looks for a new job after a business venture failed in Seoul. Eventually they reach their destination, a dusty bus stop in the Korean countryside near an unsophisticated village.
Michel et Vincent sont deux amis qui ont développé des conceptions du rapport aux femmes diamétralement opposées : éternel romantique, Michel croit au grand amour et rêve de trouver la femme de sa vie grâce à une rencontre parfaite qui soit le fruit d'un pur hasard, alors que Vincent est un séducteur invétéré qui enchaîne les conquêtes et pour qui les relations avec une femme se limitent principalement au sexe. L'irruption dans leur vie d'Angèle et de Nathalie va les confronter aux limites de leurs raisonnements respectifs. Michel étant mal à l'aise avec les filles et incapable d'essayer de les séduire, son ami Vincent imagine pour lui, sans lui en parler, une rencontre avec Angèle, qui aurait l'aspect de la rencontre de pur hasard que Michel attend avec impatience.
In the Bélier family, sixteen-year-old Paula is an indispensable interpreter for her deaf parents and brother on a daily basis, especially in the running of the family farm. One day, a music teacher discovers her gift for singing and encourages Paula to participate in a prestigious singing contest in Paris, which will secure her a good career and a college degree. However, this decision would mean leaving her family and taking her first steps towards adulthood.
Sans famille, Elisa Esposito (Sally Hawkins) a été trouvée, enfant, dans une rivière. Elle porte au cou des cicatrices semblant témoigner de violences exercées sur son larynx, qui expliqueraient qu'elle soit muette. Elle vit dans une grande solitude, tout comme son voisin de palier Giles (Richard Jenkins), un vieil homosexuel, illustrateur publicitaire sans emploi.
Le territoire est sous dictature militaire. Les fermiers voient leurs biens saisis et les villageois sont utilisés comme esclaves. Zorro est le seul à oser s'opposer à l'armée et il a juré de restaurer l'ordre et de libérer les opprimés. Cependant, pour la plupart, Zorro est un mythe.
Set in an indeterminate year of the 1840s, the film opens in a villa in Madrid, Spain, where Don Diego Vega (George Hamilton), the archetypal Spanish Don Juan, is in bed with a beautiful woman who, we learn shortly, is not his wife, but someone else's. The couple are caught by her husband, Garcia, who "is not in Barcelona", as they had previously thought. Diego, with considerable panache, fights Garcia and his five brothers with swords. During the fight, Diego's mute servant Paco (Donovan Scott) reads a letter (via gestures) from Diego's father requesting that Diego return to California [then a part of Mexico]. Diego and Paco escape by jumping from a high wall directly into a waiting carriage.
A mute Scotswoman named Ada McGrath is sold by her father into marriage to a New Zealand frontiersman named Alisdair Stewart, bringing her young daughter Flora with her. The voice that the audience hears in the opening narration is "not her speaking voice, but her mind's voice". Ada has not spoken a word since she was six years old and no one, including herself, knows why. She expresses herself through her piano playing and through sign language, for which her daughter has served as the interpreter. Flora later dramatically tells two women in New Zealand that her mother has not spoken since the death of her husband who died as a result of being struck by lightning. Ada cares little for the mundane world, occupying herself for hours every day with the piano. Flora, it is later learned, is the product of a relationship with a teacher with whom Ada believed she could communicate through her mind, but who "became frightened and stopped listening," and thus left her.
In 1850 (nine years after the events of the first film), California is voting on whether to join the United States of America as a state. A wild gunman with wooden teeth, Jacob McGivens, attempts to steal some ballots, but Zorro chases after him and recaptures the votes. In their scuffle, McGivens pulls off Zorro's mask. A pair of Pinkerton agents recognize him as Don Alejandro de la Vega. Zorro fashions a makeshift mask from his costume and rides off on his stallion, Tornado, to deliver the votes to the governor. Upon returning to his mansion, Alejandro is greeted by his loving wife, Elena (Catherine Zeta-Jones). Elena believes that Alejandro can now up give his alter ego, but Alejandro is sure that the people will still need him. The next day, after sending their son Joaquin to school, Elena is confronted by the Pinkertons, who disclose their knowledge of Zorro's identity. Soon after, Elena is forced to have Alejandro served with divorce papers.
Californie, 1840. Le vicomte de Texmelucan organise une fête pour recevoir son fils de retour de ses études d'escrime en Italie. Mais le jeune homme s'avère être un lâche fuyant à la moindre occasion. Alors qu'il fuyait un duel, il sauve une sorcière. Pour le remercier, celle-ci lui donne une pommade qui le rend invincible pendant une heure. Le jeune Tin aura seulement trois chances pour sauver son père des injustices du gouverneur Marcelo.
Entre tristesse et colère après le suicide de son ancien élève sourd ayant rencontré des situations socialement difficiles, une jeune enseignante pour enfants sourds crie haut et fort pour faire bouger la société avec l'aide d'un journaliste.
It's 1865 and the telegraph is heading west. George Crane, wanting to keep law and order out of his territory, is out to stop the construction. One of the main engineers on the job is Ken Mason, the grandson of the original Zorro. As Crane hires his men to stop the work, Mason finds himself in the legendary role his ancestor originated.