A group of elephants, with their lone surviving calf, recross a desolate salt pan, returning to the safety of the bordering Kopjes and woodlands for the night. It's a hot, dusty, dangerous landscape that is unkind to the strongest and brutally cruel on the weak, old and young alike. With the rise of the new sun, the herds will leave the relative safety of their night camps to again cross this hellscape in their never ending search for food and water during the worst draught in their memory.