Royal Nerdal Norton is a town so small and insignificant that only the gods and mapmakers have heard of it. And the town has a problem: small brown monkeys are causing all manner of mayhem and nobody can stop them. Poor widowed Harry Smee, low-ranking civil servant, is getting all the flak from the mayor for it. But then his son, Solomon Smee, a small boy with brown-rimmed glasses and dark, dark hair, gets together with the mayor's daughter, Harry's long-lost love, to come up with an idea to save the day! Their simple plan traps the monkeys safely and restores them to their natural habitat, leaving everyone to live happily ever after.