Paul Kenyon is a scientist who create the world’s first talking dog, known as Dog-People. The dogs were also given the ability to live for more than fifty years. Kenyon’s innovations were just some in a long list of human advancements; unfortunately, wars and a plague wiped out the human race, leaving a pack of dogs roaming the United States, headed by the elder, Hungor. The dogs settle down in Chicago, and there, Hungor is reunited with Kenyon. Hungor mentions how much he wishes he has hands so that they could rebuild all that was broken. Kenyon tells him about the Ape People, who were also given the ability to speak and work. Kenyon says that, if he can go to Africa and bring some of them back to the United States, Hungor’s whole world will be built back up again. Sure enough, Kenyon succeeds: he brings back an ape, Tolemy, and nine hundred other ones, and everything becomes operational again. Kenyon gets steadily sicker, which saddens Hungor greatly, but Hungor is reassured by Kenyon’s observation that anything can happen.