Young Rudyard Kipling, privileged son of a well-connected British family, lives a life of luxury in Bombay, India. But when he is separated from his family and sent to live in a desolate foster home at the age of six, he develops ideas and attitudes that shape his entire worldview. When a 26-year-old Kipling arrives in 1892 Vermont, a story is germinating in his fertile mind--the story of a jungle boy named Mowgli.