Records the philosophical conversations that take place between a man and a gorilla named Ishmael after the man answers an advertisement for a pupil with a desire to save the world.
Bill Weber chronicles the experiences he had while studying mountain gorillas in Rwanda and explains how his efforts to educate the people of Rwanda about gorillas helped save the habitats of many mountain gorillas in the area.
An alien child's quest to take a photograph of a "mysterious creature known as a human" has an unexpected result when a search through an Earth zoo brings an encounter with a gorilla.