The film tells the heroic story of a dictator who risks his life to ensure that democracy would never come to the country he so lovingly oppressed. Admiral General Aladeen (Sacha Baron Cohen) is the supreme leader of the fictional North African Republic of Wadiya. When he travels to New York to address the UN, he is betrayed, stripped of his beard and power, and forced to survive as a commoner in a Brooklyn health food store run by a staunch feminist (Anna Faris).
The film tells the heroic story of a dictator who risks his life to ensure that democracy would never come to the country he so lovingly oppressed. Admiral General Aladeen (Sacha Baron Cohen) is the supreme leader of the fictional North African Republic of Wadiya. When he travels to New York to address the UN, he is betrayed, stripped of his beard and power, and forced to survive as a commoner in a Brooklyn health food store run by a staunch feminist (Anna Faris).