Anna Breytenbach

What if you could talk to animals and have them talk back to you? Anna Breytenbach has dedicated her life to what she calls interspecies communication. She sends detailed messages to animals through pictures and thoughts. She then receives messages of remarkable clarity back from the animals. Anna can feel the scars hidden under a monkeys fur, she can understand the detailed story that is causing a birds trauma, she transforms a deadly snarling leopard into a relaxed content cat – the whole animal kingdom comes alive in a way never seen before – wild birds land on her shoulders, fish gather around her when she swims, and wild unfamiliar baboons lie on her body as if she is one of their own. This is the first full length documentary film on the art of animal communication.

At the southern tip of Africa, a bridge is being built between the human world and the wild. Anna Breytenbach practices an ancient skill that most modern humans have long since forgotten: the ability to communicate directly with animals. This story follows her journey from the rugged mountains of Cape Town, where she walks among aggressive baboon troops, to high-security predator sanctuaries housing the world's most dangerous big cats.