14世纪爆发的英法持续超过百年，法国节节败退，大部分国土都被英国占领了。就在这个时候，珍妮（米拉•乔沃维奇 Milla Jovovich 饰）出生在法国的穷乡僻壤中。年少起，珍妮就经常看到各种幻想。一次，她看到幻想并根据指示找到了一把剑，当她带着剑回到家时发现家里已遭英军蹂躏。珍妮知道是上天安排她来捍卫法国。于是她向当时的皇太子查理（约翰•马尔科维奇 John Malkovich 饰）请求率领一支军队去抗击英军。走投无路的查理答应了珍妮的请求。随后珍妮率领法军节节胜利，查理亦顺利登基。登基后的查理不再需要珍妮帮助，珍妮在以后的一次战斗中陷入困境但无人来救，她被英军捉住并带到了英国审批……

“Where do our tears come from? Some say they are the sap of our suffering and our broken hearts. Others say our tears are the waters of innocence, to cleanse the land of a Thousand and One Hills.”
Rwanda, 1973: high up in the mountains, at the source of the Nile, a black statue of the Virgin Mary watches over a Catholic boarding school for girls. Here, during days filled with classes, mass and practical work, the daughters of politicians, officers and businessmen are educated to one day become productive members of the country’s elite. Whether Hutu or Tutsi, the girls share their curiosity, dreams and joie de vivre. However, the social dynamics and increasing conflicts that characterise the school microcosm mirror the ravages wrought by the colonial order. Deeply symbolic images hint at the genocidal violence that would later engulf the entire country in 1994.

1860. Giuseppe Garibaldi began from Quarto the adventure of the Thousand surrounded by the enthusiasm of the young idealists who had come from all regions of Italy, and with his loyal group of officers, among whom a new profile stands out, that of Palermo Colonel Vincenzo Giordano Orsini. Among the many militiamen recruited were two Sicilians, Domenico Tricò, a farmer who had emigrated to the North, and Rosario Spitale, an illusionist. Having landed in Sicily, at Marsala, the Thousand begin fighting with the Bourbon army, whose numerical preponderance is immediately evident. Under these conditions, it appears almost impossible for the general to breach the enemy defense and penetrate Palermo. But when he is almost forced to retreat, Garibaldi devises an ingenious plan.