What we have here is a failure to communicate

Could someone please explain in detail the plot of the movie Babel to me? I've just seen it and lest you are thinking "how thick is she?" I did understand the storyline, it's just some of the details that have eluded me.

I have known better- I had the same problem when I saw Syriana in Oslo. Movies here are generally subtitled, so aside from the running commentary at the bottom of the screen it's on problem for me to see movies. Except when the original language isn't English. In both the movies I've mentioned a significant portion of the dialogue is in a language other than English. In North America this would be subtitled. In Japan it was too,but as the whole movie was anyways it was just rolled into the Japanese subtitles. Leaving a lot of speculation on the details of the plot.

Hopefully it will still be in theatres when I'm in Canada this summer- either that or on DVD. I want to know what was going on!