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 Theos 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 Ethans silence broken, Theo is introduced into a world beyond common human comprehension: The true nature of being. He learns that mankinds control of everything is a mere illusion and that the true values of existence cant be found so easily. Ethan changes Theos view of things forever.