Comes the chimpanzee who became the focus of a experiment which aimed to show that an ape could learn to communicate with language should raised and cultivated such as an individual child, the narrative of Nim. Following the enduring impact, and also Nim journey through society he makes the film is an unflinching and unsentimental biography of a creature we strove to create human. What we learn about his true nature - and really our own - is showing, funny and hugely unsettling.