Thick Skin
In the 1970s, thousands of elephants were systematically killed in South Africa. The traumatized orphaned calves were taken to a small national park. Without older elephants to guide them, they grew up on their own. Years later, the young bulls began overturning tourist vehicles and killing animals and people. The film explores how trauma changes social creatures across generations.
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