Author(s): Allan Havis (USA *1952) 
Production: RIAS/NDR 1979 119 min. (Kunstkopfstereo) - Original radio play int.
Director(s): Götz Naleppa
Translator: Götz Naleppa
Tags: Marriage, Men, Religion, Morocco

Content:
In the women's prison in Fez, the colonel in charge and the architect Kempler come face to face. Kempler is outraged and confused because his wife has been arrested on charges of prostitution. Between the Arab and the Jewish American, a day-long, intelligent and bitter feud breaks out over the dismissal of Kempler's wife, who, herself half Arab and half Spanish, no longer appears to be the emancipated, westernised career woman, but a dark, passionate 'gypsy'. And this in a world in which 'men mask their vices and protect their women - like cattle' (Kempler), a sophisticated puzzle about the chasms that gape between religions, races and cultures, and about the narrow, fragile bridges that connect them.

Contributors:
Fritz Schediwy; Ulrich Wildgruber; Elisabeth Trissenaar