From bottle feeding young elephants and tucking them up at night under an elephant blanket to playing an unusual game of football on Africa’s Great Plains, the keepers at The David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust provide round-the-clock care for some of Africa’s most vulnerable youngsters. Michaela Strachan and Jonathan Scott spend a year following the lives of a unique group of orphaned elephants as they try to recover from losing their mothers and face up to the challenges of taking their first steps into the wild. At Nairobi’s nursery, which cares for the milk dependent youngsters, Naserian, a newly rescued baby elephant is naturally scared and wary of her new surroundings. She meets the other orphaned elephants for the first time, and mini-matriarch, Wendi takes her under her trunk. In Tsavo East National Park, Jonathan spends time up close and personal with the big matriarch Emily as she guides her herd of 30 larger orphans, teaching them the life skills they will need in the wild. Emily’s herd are visited by Dika, a magnificent bull who was once a member of the orphan herd and is now living wild. As other waterholes across the park dry up, they come face to face with a heard of wild elephants wanting to share their waterhole. Back at the nursery, Michaela follows Naserian’s integration into the baby herd and charts the preparations for splitting the herd and moving Wendi, and five older babies, to a brand new release site in a remote corner of Tsavo. Long-term friends say goodbye, and, as the move begins, Michaela’s in the thick of the action when one of the baby elephants being transported panics in the back of a truck.