在这部野生动物剧情片中，卡拉哈里沙漠日益恶化的旱季迫使狮群、兽群和畜群需要依赖家族的力量才能生存下去。

非洲南部喀拉哈里平原，火热的太阳炙烤大地，在这片古老而沧桑的土地上，无数生灵繁衍生息。它们遵循着优胜略汰、弱肉强食的法则，顽强地度过每一天。 　　科洛（Carlo），一只猫鼬家族新出世的小成员，它的家族在动物王国里并不强大，猎鹰、毒蛇以及其他大型动物时刻威胁着它们的生命。它们只有通力合作，才能在残酷的世界中生存下来。科洛从最初的懵懂无知，最终成长为家族中不可或缺的重要成员。 　　本片荣获2008年东京国际电影节丰田地球奖特别奖。

Thrown together under incredible circumstances, two strangers must discover courage and strength when they begin a journey across the treacherous African desert! Equipped only with their wits and the expertise of a native bushman who befriends them, they are determined to triumph over impossible odds and reach their destination. But along the way, the trio face a primitive desert wilderness.

This documentary by Craig and Damon Foster focuses on the surviving San bushmen in the central Kalahari.

Tchai is the word used by Ju/'hoansi to describe getting together to dance and sing; n/um can be translated as medicine, or supernatural potency. In the 1950's, when this film was shot, Ju/'hoansi gathered for "medicine dances" often, usually at night, and sometimes such dances lasted until dawn.

Women from three separate Ju/'hoan bands have gathered at a mangetti grove at !O to play an intense game in which under-tones of social and personal tensions become apparent.