With over 150,000 elephants killed in the past five years for their tusks, The Ivory Game documents the urgent plight of the African elephant as it falls victim to a vast underground trade, where a single kilogram of ivory can sell for $3,000. With astonishing footage and a globe-spanning investigation, the film follows the work of wildlife activists, investigators and a Chinese journalist who risk their own lives to take down poachers in Africa and black marketeers in Asia, in a daring effort to save the last remaining elephants. Along the way, the young journalist reexamines the time-honored role of the investigative reporter as uninvolved observer of wrongdoing.