In a country called Lashistan, a dictator rules. A sect wants to overthrow him to seize power and establish a theocracy. Mozad, QBZ chief, proposes to the leaders of the sect to film the president in scenes where he kills, tortures and executes; and in others, where he is engaged in total debauchery. To do so, Mozad introduces the plotters to Komany, and alcoholic actor and a look-alike of the president.

Through the tragic fate of a former resistance fighter, a donkey narrates the story of the citizens who participated in the struggle against the authorities of the French protectorate during the exile of King Mohammed V, and of the traitors who collaborated with the colonizers to become rich.

Tortured by policemen seeking to extract confessions from him about his shady association with a certain William Shakespeare, Fettah Aberkane falls into a coma. In his agony, he imagines the film he has always dreamed of making.