Silent language, gentle demeanour and a race against the elements to survive the ebb and flow of northern Botswana's seasons are what seem to make elephants here what they are. While the species is becoming endangered elsewhere in Africa Botswanas herds are thriving and provide the ideal situation for this film; an open range of many thousands of elephants. The story of two young calves is the hinge for investigation the lives of all elephants as they march for the water they need so desperately each year. For the first time, serious contact between lions and elephant appears on film as with the underwater sequences as they swim across the Chobe River.