An infant child is raised by apes after being shipwrecked off the west coast of Africa. As he grows, he learns the laws of the jungle and eventually claims the title, Lord of the Apes. Yet, years later, when he is returned to civilization as the Earl of Greystoke, Tarzan (Christopher Lambert in his first English speaking role) remains uncertain as to which laws he should obey; those of man, or those of the jungle...