An orphaned cheetah becomes the best friend and pet of a young boy living in South Africa.
      During a nightly Porche ride with his doting rascal Xan, white South African farmer Peter finds and adopts an orphaned cheetah cub, dubbed Duma (just Swahili for cheetah). It becomes the boy's ineparable playmate, even taking it to bed. Peter made clear from the start that the cheetah should be returned to the wild before its full adulthood. But the father is stricken down with a disease just before the cheetah could be returned. Xan's mother sells the farm and moves in with a city aunt. The cheetah escapes, but finds Xan at school, where the new boy is bullied. He decides to run away to the mountain with Duma. On the way they face countless perils, which courage, Xan's intelligence and Duma's intinct overcome.

12 - year-old boy Zane to make their childhood raising large cheetah Duma free from a prisoner of fate , determined to send it back to the wild story . Wild land of the South African crises, African lions lurking hidden crocodiles in the river , that the mystery tramp trying to grab the Duma make money --- all this in a test of Zane 's courage and determination . Meanwhile , the boy Zane also in this adventure to grow .