Allen described the film""s plot as a combination of his previous two films,Interiors (1978)andAnnie Hall (1977).As they push off from the dock, church bells ring.In their crossing, an unbelievably frightful scene fraught with danger and tension, he determinedly rows hunkered down and stern-faced without looking across at his wife.My life that could have been and wasn""t.How do I feel? Old, worn-out"); Carol suggested to Kirk: "Let me show you something that will make you feelyoungas when the world was new." The cartload of humans were delivered to exploitative slave trader orangutan Limbo (Paul Giamatti) who called the group "the skankiest, scabbiest, scuzziest humans I""ve ever seen.