A middle-aged woman leads a traveling circus act through the Midwest featuring 26 monkeys who climb into a bathtub and disappear and then reappear on her bus after the show. The impending death of one of the key monkeys causes her to wrestle with the meaning of life.

A man’s game with his son turns into something more sinister when he finds out that his son is seeing things that he isn’t.

A circus wire-walker suffers an injury that relegates him to an unimportant side-show, but he finds solace in the company of a Rhesus monkey who has lost her child.

A group of American explorers and scientists in Africa, including two women, venture into the wild looking for gorillas. When one of the women goes missing, their native guides quit their jobs, and the men lead a slaughter of the gorillas, the other woman wonders if the first woman disappeared into the world of the gorillas by choice, to escape the confines of her life with men.

After a trial injection of an experimental drug into a group of monkeys, an observer watches the various participants’ unusual and often deadly responses.

In a Chinese village during the Qing Dynasty, a crippled man acts as a lawyer for the poor with the help of the trickster Monkey King, but his peaceful life is turned upside down when he comes into possession of a book that details atrocities committed by the government.

An old man recalls how the death of King Kong caused him to lose someone he loved.

An esteemed chimpanzee expert retires in her Connecticut hometown with an ape who was raised as a human.

Apollo is an ordinary kid at a party, a crime fighting justice-seeker, a victorious basketball player, a police officer doing his job, a scared boy running from a villain. His story begins again and again, and he's different every time — but every time, his story ends in the same, terrible way.

A group of experienced lion hunters from a nation renowned for the craft is slaughtered after being sent after a mechanical prey.