It is 2023. Nepal is in crisis. Prime Minister, 'Pants' Pandey has gone mad, but that doesn't stop him holding his People's Party at the Hotel New Democracy on Saturday night. Everyone will be there. There is trouble on the border between India and Pakistan. The self-exiled King Banandra is plotting to return. The Gang of Three are planning a suicide bombing. The city is in turmoil, as armed gangs and rabid monkeys roam the streets. Meanwhile Hom Bahadur Thapa, an ex-gurkha soldier sleeps in the Presidential Suite, dreaming of his life in the mountains and of better days.