A hybrid mixture of thriller, comedy, melodrama, and love story, The Red Squirrel focuses on the relationship between a young man and a female amnesiac he refashions as his lover. Jota, a washed-up rock singer on the brink of suicide, witnesses a motorcycle accident and discovers its victim: a young woman, physically unharmed but without memory or identity papers. Improvising wildly, Jota absconds with the girl by pretending to be her lover and attempts to create a fictitious life for her. Weaving a tapestry both humorous and dark, Medem addresses psycho-sexual power plays, the nature of identity, lies, and surprises in this strange romantic mystery, forever flying off in new and unexpected directions.