Gilgamesh, the overbearing king of Uruk, meets his match in Enkidu, a creature of the wilderness whom the gods shape to curb him, and the two become friends. Together they kill Humbaba, guardian of the Cedar Forest, and the Bull of Heaven. When the gods strike Enkidu down, the grieving king sets out across the world to find the flood survivor Utnapishtim and the secret of living for ever.