Flying back to the African savanna with his parents, 14-year-old Gerry would rather be back home - sure, his parents' baboon research lets him explore the African wilderness, but thinking of spending weeks there with a bunch of monkeys makes him miss everything about the city Suddenly, the plane flies into a lightning storm, the engine dies, and they come down hard Gerry wakes up on the ground, thinking that a baboon has broken his fall, but something quite different has happened - something that will change Gerry's life forever