The film was allegedly produced by Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, an Egyptian American Coptic Christian and portrays the Prophet Mohammed as a philanderer and a religious fake.

Mao is certainly a more interesting figure than were many tyrants a poet, an intellectual, a student of history as well as a serial philanderer, who, according to his doctor, Li Zhisui, liked to swim in water, not bathe in it.