When an outcast teen, Tatiana, gets a school assignment to write a letter to a person she admires, she jokingly writes to a foreign dictator named Hector because she likes his fashion sense. Hector takes to the admiration, and the two become unlikely pen pals. When a political coup forces the dictator to flee his island nation, he seeks refuge in the house of his only remaining friend, and ends up teaching the young teen how to start a revolution and overthrow the "mean girls" at her high school.