A sacred Bengal Tiger uses his divine connection to nature, and joins forces with an Indian goddess and misfit Dubai car mechanic, on a risky and daring odyssey to reunite with his Japanese conservationist father.

SYNOPSIS:

One morning in Bandipur National Park, India, a cub is born to a Divine and sacred Tigress. After giving birth, she is poisoned by a poacher. A Hindu priest rushes to the scene from the nearby temple but the poacher flees with the cub. As the Tigress dies in the arms of the Priest, her spirit-light, Rooh, enters the Priest’s body and soul.

In Spring, the Divine cub appears in a black market in Hokkaido, Japan. Yamato, an old Shinto conservationist of Red-Crowned cranes, is guided by the ethereal Rooh into the black market where he purchases the cub. He names him Kaito.

Kaito soaks in the wisdom and skills from the motherly Red-Crowned cranes and forms a deep connection with fatherly Yamato. He mimics the Japanese Nightingale whistle and uses it as his language to speak with his father. Kaito wants to fly like the cranes and Yamato acknowledges a deep sense of self-belief in him and teaches him to build belief into knowledge and to focus on the journey, not the destination. He asks Kaito what price he is willing to pay for this great desire to fly and Kaito responds “good question” as he is still too naive to know what this means.

Soon after, adolescent Kaito is kidnapped again and sold in a black market in Dubai. Yamato is heartbroken and looks everywhere for him. Kaito is renamed Babr by a bullish and rowdy luxury car dealer who buys him as a joke for his younger cousin and car mechanic employee Rashid, a timid and misfit 30 year old. Rashid is stunned at this gift but is gently guided by the appearance of Rooh to trust this moment and accept it as destiny.

Despite the cousin's cruel intentions for the relationship, Babr and Rashid form a deep bond over the course of a year and before long, Babr has forgotten where he came from as the pair make a home for themselves in Dubai. Eventually though, they are forced to go on the run after Rashid’s cousin betrays them and the authorities show up to confiscate Babr.

An epic police chase results with them lost in the desert. After being pushed to the brink of death, Babr looks inward and, in an existential crisis, resolves to believe in himself. Babr has visions of where he came from, where he grew up and of the lessons his father taught him. He reasons with himself to risk his own life and ultimately change who he is. He realizes now where his roots are, where he and Rashid must return to, and he summons that forgotten desire to fly like the cranes in order to get them there. After a rocky start and a crash landing, he finds the words to convince Rashid to believe in the journey, too.

Their quest to return home takes them across seas and continents. Along the way they encounter otherworldly mystics, terrified humans, an ambush of tigers, shady poachers, swarms of insects, storms at sea and other challenges that test their resolve. With Rooh’s Divine help and Babr’s sacred connection to nature, they persevere and find their way back home to Japan where they encounter Babr’s father and the Red-Crowned cranes waiting for them with a hero's welcome. Babr has journeyed to distant lands and arrived home the embodiment of his full potential- he has reached his final destination.