The message inside the bottle was the testimony of a man, Ulysse Mérou, who had written down his story in the hope that someone else, somewhere, would find it. The main events of the book are placed in a frame story, in which Jinn and Phyllis, a couple out on a pleasure cruise in a spaceship, find a message in a bottle floating in space. He finds that each primate species are separated in classes, chimpanzees are kind, peaceful intellectuals and citizens, orangutans are the scientists and the politicians, gorillas are violent and are the laborers, hunters, and authorities, and monkeys are citizens and workers.
They all have different fates the physicist get killed during the hunt, the professor reverts to primitive behavior, and the journalist is held in a laboratory. A young journalist, along with a physicist and a professor, are going through space when they land on a mysterious planet where they find naked, primitive, animalistic human beings that are hunted, experimented on, and oppressed by evolved, humanoid like apes and monkeys.
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