The Arabian leopard once ranged across the entire peninsula; fewer than 200 are thought to survive in the wild today, most of them in Oman's protected reserves, with Yemen offering almost no formal conservation at all. In November 2010, Ibrahim al-Qahzem, a young Yemeni whose father Hussain hunted leopards for a living, joins seven other students on an eight-day training expedition into Oman's Jebel Samhan, a 450,000-hectare reserve set aside for the species. The film follows the group as they learn to read leopard tracks, scat, and scrapes across the mountains, and set camera traps to confirm the animals are still there. Ibrahim's presence carries the film's real subject: a hunter's son choosing to override generations of tradition that treated the leopard as prey rather than as something worth protecting. Because Yemen has no leopard program of its own, what these students take home from Oman may decide whether the species survives outside a handful of guarded valleys.