В самый разгар съемок у режиссера Пола завязывается любовная интрижка с Алиной, одной из актрис. В последний для нее съемочный день Пол решает изменить сценарий и добавить постельную сцену с участием Алины. Но новое утро расставляет все на свои места, и вместо съемок Пол звонит продюсеру и жалуется на обострившуюся язву.
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.
Kurt Gerstein—a member of the Institute for Hygiene of the Waffen-SS—is horrified by what he sees in the death camps. he is then shocked to learn that the process he used to purify water for his troops by using Zyklon-B, is now used to kill people in gas chambers.
