Jill sees his mother and a gorilla with a baby die in front of her eyes, and before her mother dies, she asks her to take care of Joe, the baby gorilla. But because of a rare genetic anomaly, Joe grows more than usual for a gorilla, and the other gorillas will not accept him because of his big size. Jill is convinced that Joe may be happier in the USA, and so they travel to Los Angeles, to a refugee. But trouble starts soon, as the man that killed her mother shows up and offers to take Joe to a refugee in Africa, which is a lie for being able to kill Joe as he had promised before.