男孩哈里随父亲参加捕猎棕熊的活动。在猎人们成功捕获了两只小棕熊后，哈里被突然袭击的母棕熊叼走，成了“人质”。在与母棕熊的朝夕相处中，哈里和棕熊竟成了好朋友。为了使棕熊母子团聚，哈里赶回营地，企图说服猎手们放了小熊，却遭到了曾被母熊咬伤的猎手吉内的强烈反对……
Plot Summary:Out in the wilds, an aged man tells his grandchildren a tale of his own youth. After his mother dies, his usually-absent father, whom he barely knows, takes him into these same wilds to hunt for a grizzly. They find a mother bear with two cubs. The hunters capture the cubs, but the grizzly captures the lad. Somehow, boy and bear bond and trek across the forest with dad and a First Nations friend on their trail. After a while, the boy figures out where he and his new mother are going: toward her cubs. Rifles, dogs, hunters, bear, cubs, father, and son are headed for a rendezvous.
