After an disastrous encounter with a giant bear, members of a troglodyte clan in southern France hunt another dangerous beast. During a period of rapid climate change a group of cro-magnon women survive by wit and grit on the tundra after their men are killed on a hunt. A paleo-indian boy on the North American plains finds an alternative way to prove himself an adult after the disgrace of disrupting a bison hunt.—David Foss