The profound story of Lucy Temerlin, a female chimpanzee raised as human from birth in a domestic environment, and Janis Carter, the woman who took on the seemingly impossible task of giving her a new life in the wild.
Lucy (1964–1987) was a chimpanzee owned by the Institute for Primate Studies in Oklahoma and raised by Maurice K. Temerlin, a psychotherapist and professor at the University of Oklahoma, and his wife, Jane.