- Mehmet is a man living with his family in a mountain village in Black Sea. He earns his life breeding a few animals, while looking for a mineral reserve on the mountains but his pursuit is seen as useless by his family. Destroyed in search of a mineral reserve, his hope is renewed with the news of a competition.
- 艾米（娜奥米·沃茨 Naomi Watts 饰）和皮特（蒂姆·罗斯 Tim Roth 饰）是一对富有而又善良的中产夫妻，十年前，他们领养了来自非洲战乱国家厄利垂亚的一位名为卢斯（小凯文·哈里森 Kelvin Harrison 饰）的男孩，卢斯曾经被作为童兵而接受了非常残酷的军事训练，艾米和皮特坚信，良好的教育和包容的爱能够帮助他找回自己善良的本性。 一晃眼十年过去，卢斯无惊无险的成长为了一位正直有为的少年，过去在他身上刻下的烙印已经很淡了。卢斯的非裔老师哈雷特（奥克塔维亚·斯宾瑟 Octavia Spencer 饰）非常欣赏这位学生，认为他能够改变人们对于非洲国家和人种的刻板想象。
- Five Earth teens - Keith, Lance, Hunk, Pidge and Shiro - who become the last line of defense for the galaxy in an intergalactic battle against the evil alien force led by King Zarkon.
- Professor Charles Francis Xavier, who has the mutant ability to read minds, searches for new mutants to train them how to use their powers for good and to prevent the mutants from harming themselves and others at his School for Gifted Youngsters. His opposition, Magneto Master of Magnetism, is doing the same thing, but for evil purposes. He has made Mystique who is a shape-shifter, a principle of his high school to gather evil mutants to prepare them for war against non-mutants. The most interesting plot of the story is that all the heroes and villains attend the same high school. The classic battle of good vs. evil has begun again.
