Kim Sung-geun earns his living doing odd jobs for a theater company, occasionally playing a walk-on part, and waiting for his big break.

Sung-geun not only ruins the show, but he feels shamed in front of his son Tae-sik, who was in the audience and had believed his father to be the greatest actor in the world.

He and 11 other actors pass the first round, then they're put on a bus and taken to the basement of the KCIA building where they are stripped, dragged into separate rooms and tortured.

But when the summit gets cancelled, Sung-geun cannot let go of his Kim Il Sung persona and continues to act like the North Korean leader.

[5][6] Financed by Lotte Entertainment with a budget of ₩4 billion, filming began at a small theater in Namwon, North Jeolla Province on March 26, 2014.