You may have to wait for a long storm. It'll take watching the movie at least twice to understand it unless you are very good at paying attention to all the details from start to finish. It's a difficult movie to follow, but very interesting and worth watching. It has a very deep and profound meaning. It follows 6 stories simultaneously all from different periods of time and how they are all connected by very small actions that have led to major global events. It's a prime example of the butterfly effect. Just one seemingly simple article can effect billions of people far into the future.