Luigi and Lafayette, two immigrants, work at Andreas Flaxman's wax museum in Lower Manhattan. Luigi is an artist/sculptor, while Lafayette is a jack-of-all-trades with a passion for Ancient Rome. He also works at a feminist theater group, where he faces sexist abuse. Meanwhile, Luigi finds a 50-foot King Kong model in a landfill and adopts a baby chimpanzee, which he believes is the giant ape's son.
Bye Bye Monkey
A beachcomber stumbles upon the lifeless body of King Kong near New York City, and in the same vicinity, he discovers the giant ape's young son, left orphaned. With the help of a friend, he decides to bring the infant Kong to the city and raise it as his own.
