Our story begins deep in the heart of a jungle in India, where a family of wolves comes upon a baby boy in a basket. In a flash, Shere Kahn the tiger springs at the human baby, but Raksha, the she-wolf, saves the baby and brings him into the wolf den. Akela, the wolf pack leader, Raksha, and their cubs vow to defend their human child, named Mowgli, from Shere Kahn.