Author: Allan Havis (USA 1952)
Genre: Radio play
Production: NDR/MDR 1991
Director: Götz Naleppa
Editing: Götz Naleppa
Length: 85 min.
Translation: Götz Naleppa

Contributors:
Fritz Schediwy, Ulrich Wildgruber, Elisabeth Trissenaar

Content:
In the women's prison in Fez, the colonel in charge and the architect Kempler are 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, an equally intelligent and bitter feud breaks out over the release of Kempler's wife, who, half Arab, half Spanish herself, no longer seems to be the emancipated, westernised career woman, but a dark, passionate 'gypsy'. And this in a world where 'men mask their vices and protect their women - like the dear cattle' (Kempler).
A sophisticated conundrum about the chasms that gape between religions, races and cultures, and the narrow, fragile bridges that connect them.