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In the film, Léon (played by Reno), a "cleaner" or professional assassin, saves the life of a twelve-year-old girl, Mathilda (played by Portman), after her family is killed by crooked DEA agents, and is obligated to take care of her. She tries to convince him to teach her his trade so she can avenge her family's murderer; in return, she helps him with his house work, and may teach him a little humanity as well.
Léon is to some extent an English-language variation on the theme of Besson's earlier film, Nikita. Besson has said he considers Jean Reno's character in Nikita (a cleaner) to be a 'cousin' of Léon.
There is a version marketed in the US as the "International Version", which is also referred to as Version Intégrale, that has an extra 20-odd minutes of footage. It makes the film much more Lolita-like, and although it handles the situation exceptionally well this was felt to be too risqué for the US audience.
Let's note however that Luc Besson often releases his movies in extended versions, which are simply called version longue in France, and not version intégrale. They get a limited run in normal theaters, in larger cities. The existence of an extended version does not mean that the original one was somehow censored. Extended versions are targeted at fans which enjoy a slower-paced show, Eric Serra's music and the general climate, like in The Big Blue. Léon was shown in France in the normal version, not in the international, intégrale or long cut. Similarly, small differences in movie durations, as accounted by IMDB, do not necessarily result from the presence of censoring in the shorter version, as European television and video standards show movies slightly accelerated, shortening for example a 2 hours movie by nearly 5 minutes; video labelling can reflect the actual duration rather than the theatrical one.