The Idiot President features Alejo, an actor living in a formerly soviet country (I could be terribly wrong here...), who outlines his life as a student, an actor with the theater group 'Diciembre', and later, an out-of-work individual looking for work. Alejo is the name the main character goes by while working with 'Diciembre' performing a play called 'The Idiot President' and we never really learn his real given name. Through his travels with the group we readers learn about the soviet hold over Alejo's country and how this country changes with the times.