A rogue elephant named Kala has been terrorizing the villages and towns of India. George Maxwell, a young British officer, is tasked with hunting and killing Kala but as he sets out on his task, George learns that there is more to Kala than meets the eye. Kala is intellingent and cunning, and he has been driven to madness by the cruelty of humans. George begins to question the morality of killing an animal who has already seen such cruelty at the hands of man.