For over a century the villagers of Barekuri, northeast India’s biodiversity hotspot, have coexisted with the country’s only ape species, the hoolock gibbon.
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But this harmony stands in fragile ecological balance. Mohit Chutia, a 55yearold farmer and father, has been taking care of one gibbon family while raising his own. When researcher Ishika Ramakrishna arrives to study humangibbon interactions, she joins forces with Mohit and the villagers to tackle the gibbons' urgent population decline, endangered by habitat loss, deforestation and industrial catastrophe.

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