Bear trainer Jeff Watson embarks on a mission to teach his captive, 700-pound grizzly bears, Bob and Screech, how to survive in the deep wild.

Jeff releases his bears, Bob and Screech, into the habitat where he begins his lifelong dream of re-wilding them; the first lesson, fishing, proves more difficult than Jeff imagined and Bob appears to fall behind Screech.

Jeff teaches the bears to forage in the wild, but Bob's foot continues to be a concern; when the bear slashes Jeff in the arm, he refuses medical care; after losing the bears, Jeff must think about the difficulty of them actually leaving the nest.