When the monk Rosuke mysteriously disappears, his lover Nonoka joins the assassin Shinno in a search that leads to a mysterious religious sanctuary. But Rosuke finds himself aboard a spaceship bound for a distant planet.

After escaping from prison, nine convicts set out to recover a hidden cache of counterfeit money. But as each man returns to the people and places he left behind, their desperate bid for freedom becomes an unexpected journey of redemption.

Traversing time and space, Lisandro Alonso presents a meditation on the experiences of indigenous peoples across the Americas. Opening in the Old West, reality transitions to present day South Dakota and then to the jungles of 1970s Brazil.

Humble French teacher Albert Topaze (Peter Sellers) falls prey to corrupt city official Castel Benac (Herbert Lom), who uses him as a front for one of his shady businesses until Topaze gets the last laugh.