A shut-in with the soul of a modern corporate wage slave accidentally transmigrates into Sun Wukong, who has just wreaked havoc in Heaven and is now pinned beneath Five Elements Mountain. To escape the pilgrimage fate laid out in the original story, with its “low pay, lousy benefits, and high risk,” he decides to use his modern knowledge and inside information to launch a hilarious campaign against overwork and wage slavery, while playing office politics with all the gods and Buddhas in Heaven.