In the seventh circle of suburbia, where routine is king, the mailman serves as entertainer-in-chief, and stifled housewives take solace in the bottle, two brothers — one rebellious and overmedicated, the other so exaggeratedly nerdy that he appears to have suffered from severe prenatal drug abuse — decide, out of boredom, to order a live monkey advertised in a comic book. Of course, the (literal) shit hits the (proverbial) fan when the monkey, named Pepe, bursts in on the boys’ mother’s bridge game and abuses her terrifyingly Stepfordian friends.