Filmmaker Thomas Behrend spends eight hours on a punishing jungle road in the Central African Republic to reach one of the last strongholds of western lowland gorillas, a population estimated at around 3,000 animals. The film follows him into the forest as he tracks a habituated group on foot, getting close enough to watch juveniles play and silverbacks feed while local trackers read broken vegetation and dung for signs of the troop. Behrend's camera stays low and patient, catching long stretches of unscripted behavior rather than cutting away for narration-driven explanation. Interviews with the guides and conservation staff working in the region fill in the pressures on the population, from poaching to disease, and the difficulty of protecting an animal that lives in terrain this remote. The film's real subject is proximity: what it takes, physically and logistically, to sit a few meters from a wild gorilla family and simply watch them live.