At a national park in Kenya, Joy, English game warden George Adamson and his wife, care for three orphaned lion cubs. After the two lions have been shipped off to a zoo in the Netherlands, the smallest of the three stays with the couple. If Elsa is blamed for causing an elephant stampede at the village, head warden John Kendall requires the younger lion be transmitted to your zoo or be trained to survive from the wilds of the Serengeti.