Ferocious tiger Shere Khan is enraged when his man-cub prey evades his clutches in a cave where a wolf family lives. The wolves decide to raise the boy themselves, and Mowgli grows up learning the ways of the jungle, helped by his friends Baloo the bear and Bagheera the panther. But Shere Khan has a long memory, and a showdown looms in one of Kipling's thrilling Jungle Book tales.