Botswana's Kalahari desert and Okavango Delta anchor this portrait of a country built around its wildlife, where the Okavango River never reaches the sea and instead disappears into desert sand. The film follows three people whose lives run alongside the animals. Prince Wright, born in the Kalahari 42 years ago, takes his 14-year-old nephew Nimrod on a bush initiation modeled on the old rite of passage, when a boy could not return to the village until he had killed an antelope. In the delta village of Etsha, Tonic Dinonoka, orphaned young and now the village's resourceful handyman, helps elder Andrek with a task the community needs done. Australian zoologist Tempe Adams, four years into fieldwork for the NGO Elephants Without Borders, trades a Sydney lab for tracking elephants in the bush as she finishes her doctoral thesis. Together the three threads sketch a country of two million people that has kept its elephants and savanna largely intact, and may be one of the animals' last strongholds.