After losing her father to a long illness, midwestern schoolteacher Rebecca Over seeks an escape by traveling to Botswana's spectacular Okavango Delta. As her journey takes her farther away from home, she is awed by both the the beauty and the violence of the African wilderness. But Rebecca learns that even in the delta, she cannot escape her past, as encounters with the territory's wild species, as well as the other tourists, test her defenses in unexpected ways.