Peter Nitzsche

For years, Martin has been working on his great play about cloud castles, flying pirates and a feisty princess. His secret role model for the leading character is his good friend Isabel, a cheeky young woman who is waging war on genetically modified seeds around the world. And she is leaving tomorrow to go to the middle of Africa for the next three years.

Jan Roelfsema does a trip to the countryside for finishing his novel. He ends up in the former Hostel of Karl and Anna who appear to keep a secret. His search for answers reveals many signs which draw a horrible picture in his head about Anna being held as a sex slave or worse. Acting as any brave man in love would do, his attempt to free Anna reveals the much more shocking truth...

The personal story of the young student Felix Goldschmidt, who finds himself arrested for a crime he does not understand, like his fellow prisoners, he believes at first that he the victim of a mistake. But Red Gloves is also a political story, describing how a totalitarian state imposes itself by fear, rooting out individuals almost randomly and demanding their submission. By cutting back to scenes from the old life of Felix, the author manages to achieve balance and contrast with the suffocating atmosphere of the prison. We are shown our hero as an idealistic young man, searching for love and fulfillment.