 Nearly two years after having gone amiss in Africa, renowned anthropologist Dr. Ethan Powell is caught committing a crime and subsequently imprisoned in a Florida mental institution, where aspiring psychologist Dr. Theo Calder takes over his important case. Dr. Powell, who has been with a group of gorillas during all that time, is not talking at all and seems to be living in a dreamworld. Very slowly, Dr. Calder manages to reach Ethan Powell and starts finding out why Ethan killed two of the poachers. Yet Theo s case is not just about why the murders have happened, but also about how Dr. Powell became the being he is in the first place. With Ethan s silence broken, Theo is introduced into a world beyond common human comprehension: The true nature of being. He learns that mankind s control of everything is a mere illusion and that the true values of existence can t be found so easily. Ethan changes Theo s view of things forever.