蒙面英雄佐罗（安东尼•霍普金斯 Anthony Hopkins 饰）为了阻止西班牙总督蒙特罗滥杀无辜，突然从天而降，劫走了准备行刑的犯人，从而与蒙特罗结下深仇。随后，蒙特罗派部队跟踪了佐罗。在一片混战中，佐罗的妻子被杀死，还在襁褓中的女儿被虐走，佐罗也被投入了监牢。一晃眼二十年过去了，为了让自己的事业后继有人，佐罗带上面具逃出了监狱。蒙特罗这时仍然在作恶，他计划买下加利福尼亚的所有权。佐罗找到...
A Parisian museum director believes his wife has lost interest in him and so places a poisoned cigarette in the box on his desk - thus allowing chance to decide the moment of his death....
Ten directors of a new generation of filmmakers tell how differently people in Switzerland cope with the worst imaginable disaster; the fact of being dependent on other countries....