The Monster That Ate Ubud

Chuck Fung and Swami Shoeman are as different as night and day. But when they meet in Ubud, Bali, they become inseparable opposites, thus unwittingly embodying ancient Balinese cosmology. Attempting to make a buck off the ever burgeoning crowd of spiritual seekers drawn to this paradise island, they pool their talents and enlist the help of a Balinese shaman. The shaman spins a cryptic yarn that convinces the hapless chumps that they have extraordinary powers of creative visualisation. The Fung Shoe brothers write a book about the wellspring of abundance they have discovered through their meeting with the shaman. By sheer coincidence and dumb luck, the book becomes a bestseller and a Hollywood movie. Soon Ubud is crawling with book-clutching seekers and what was once a quaint and exotic village turns into a nightmare of traffic and out-of-control development. Chuck and Swami hightail it back to the shaman in a desperate attempt to reverse the tide of events. But are they too late to save Ubud?