Chris Young makes a living as a trapper in the Rocky Mountains of Montana. He finds a bear cub cuddled to the dead body of its mother and takes it into his care and gives him the name Jack. However, not long afterwards, his canoe capsizes in the rapids of a river and he loses all his possessions, and the bear cub.
 
Abandoned, the little bear must learn to survive in a violent wilderness. Using his wit and lots of luck, over the years the bear grows into a powerful monarch of the forest...
 
To survive, Jack attacks ranchers’ cattle. But he always escapes the hunters. Eventually, the ranchers hire an experienced hunter and tracker, Chris Young.
 
Yet, even Chris finds it difficult to outsmart the Monarch.
 
Then, one fateful day, rifle in hand, Chris faces the Monarch, the bear he once called Jack...
 
A moving parable about the relationship between man and beast. A cry from the heart.