The Fifth Element involves the survival of planet Earth, which becomes the responsibility of an unlikely human and humanity's saviour who join forces to recover four mystical stones essential for the defence of Earth against an impending attack.
Every five thousand years, The Great Evil appears whose purpose is to destroy all life. In preparation for its next appearance in 2263, the Mondoshawan arrive on Earth in 1914 to extract the only weapon capable of defeating the it: four stones with classical elements, and the Fifth Element. This takes the form of a human-looking woman named "Leeloo" described as "the perfect being", and she joins forces with a taxi driver Dallas to defeat the Great Evil. They return to the temple where the Mondoshawans first arrived, as the Great Evil rushes towards Earth. They arrange the stones in the temple to form the weapon, and eventually Leeloo releases the weapon's "Divine Light", causing the Great Evil to become a new moon in Earth's orbit.