Valentin Gruener found Sirga as a ten-day old cub, dehydrated and dying in a lion enclosure on Grasslands Game Farm in the Kalahari Desert of Botswana. Instead of letting nature take its course, he rescued her and raised her by hand.
Filmed over three years and with unrivalled intimacy, this ground-breaking series delves into the heart of an extraordinary friendship between a man and a lioness, and reveals what it takes to walk and hunt with a lion.