Long ago, in the days when mammoths walked the earth, and the eternal ice reached the southern seas, lived a hunter named Kenai. He was brave and clever, but once angered the Great Spirits by killing a bear - an animal sacred to him, whose totem he wore around his neck. Then the spirits of ancestors turned Kenai into a bear as a punishment. Now he can not speak in human terms, his own brother hunts for him, and a mischievous bear Coda came to him, who does not want to leave the hero alone. But the spirits knowingly brought Kenai with Coda: when the hunter sees a bear cub as a soul mate, he can again become a man.