Carmen is 17 years old and lives in Glod, a small gypsy village where nothing happens, somewhere in the Romanian mountains. She works daily in the shop and pub of her father, and has an admirer from the village, Christi. But Carmen dreams of a future somewhere else, somewhere she can find her ideal husband and lead a fantastic and rich life. She watches Spanish soap operas on TV and tries to learn Spanish. At the same time she loves her family dearly. She realises she has to leave behind the people she cares about to make her dreams come true.
When a man called Borat and his film crew appear, the villagers cooperate on what they believe will be a documentary. Carmen's father and her grandfather appear in the film, but as nobody speaks English, they have no clue what the film really is about. As soon as the villagers find out the film makes a fool of them, pretending Glod to be Kazakhstan, they are outraged. Borat calls them 'whores', 'thieves' and 'abortionists'. They feel abused and discriminated.