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 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 conundrum about the chasms that gape between religions, races and cultures, and the narrow, fragile bridges that connect them.