The movie, an epic, features four separate stories told in parallel, linked by the central theme of evil intolerance and a transitional shot of a mother rocking a cradle that symbolizes our common humanity.

INTOLERANCE sought to demonstrate the persistence of racial and social prejudices through the ages. Therefore, the stories play in separate historical eras. They picture the fall of Babylon, the life and crucifixion of Jesus, the St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre in 16th-Century of the Huguenots in France as modern-day story of how social reformers and social workers destroy the lives of a young couple. As the film goes on, the intercutting becomes faster and more intense until it reaches the climatic height at the end - the triumph of the Good over the Evil.