When Charlotte Dumas was a child, her father took her to the Blijdorp Zoo in Rotterdam and they sketched the elephants together. Observing and looking at animals with attention was instilled in her from then on. Near the end of his life, when her father was suffering from Alzheimer's disease, they visited the elephants in Rotterdam one last time. In his pencil drawings from this outing, the elephants appear as abstractions, conveying something direct and genuine, often found in children's art. This book brings together photographs and drawings of elephants - images taken with her father's half-frame camera, alongside some of his early charcoal sketches, his very last elephant drawings, and ink forms made by both of them. Born of memory and shared experience, these works became an anchor in seeking a deeper understanding of humans and elephants - what we receive from and owe to one another, within our families and across the distance of our separate lives.