Based on a true story that began when two friends, John Rendall and Anthony "Ace" Bourke, bought a lion cub from Harrods and raised it in their antique shop on King's Road in the swinging 60's London era. Eventually realizing the feline should be returned to its natural habitat, they contacted famed conservationist George Adamson and went about the process of rehabilitating the lion into the wild in Kenya. Many months after the naturalization, the two men went back to Kenya to see the lion one last time.