In the early seventies, New York’s Columbia University started up a special experiment: scientists wanted to find out whether monkeys were capable of human forms of communication. A young chimp named Nim Chimpsky lived with a human family and grew up alongside human children. They were all fed, nurtured and raised identically. This film tells the revealing, funny but also unnerving story of this attempt to turn a monkey into a human being. Project NIM won the Directing Award at the Sundance Film Festival and became a big hit on the international film festival circuit.