The Great Sage is trapped beneath Five Elements Mountain, and Flower-Fruit Mountain has become a rigid fortress of hierarchy. The monkeys are divided into the Brahmin Cave, Kshatriya Cave, Vaishya Cave, Shudra Cave, and the lowest of all, the “Dalit Cave.”
Chi Ling, chairman of the Flower-Fruit Mountain Management Committee, says that if the monkeys want to raise money to rescue the Great Sage, they just have to work themselves to the bone. Then the Great Sage’s seal can be lifted, and once he returns, everything on Flower-Fruit Mountain will be fine again.
Mao Dou, a wild monkey from the Dalit Cave, born on the edge of a cesspit, uses his astonishing talent for human speech to pry open a crack in this game of power...
