Based on fact that is stranger than fiction, this work by Fabien Tillon and Fréwé is a captivating thriller that retraces several extraordinary lives and reconstructs the incredible universe of one of the most isolated dictatorships in the world. Despite its detachment, it carefully cultivates its cultural image abroad, going so far as to kidnap two star filmmakers in order to produce cinematic masterpieces that would bestow international prestige on the dictator and his administration.