Confused about where his career went wrong, film director Emil Forrester receives an unexpected invitation to attend a retrospective of his work at The Karastan International Film Festival. On arrival in Karastan, Emil is flattered by the attention he receives and soon finds himself persuaded by the country's benign yet massively corrupt President Aleluyev to direct an epic retelling of the story of the medieval hero and founder of the country, with drunken actor Xan Butler already on-board to star. Emil finds himself desperately struggling to create a local blockbuster in a language he doesn't understand, against a political backdrop he has no idea about and with a questionable array of cast and crew.