Ethan Rosen and Rudi Klausinger: Both are experts in the same field, cultural studies. Yet they couldn't be more different: Rosen feels at home everywhere and nowhere at the same time. He even introduces himself to the woman he loves under a false name. Klausinger, on the other hand, knows how to adapt to any place but is still restless: What drives him is the search for his biological father, which ultimately leads him to Israel to Ethan Rosen. Rosen's father, an elderly Viennese Jew who survived Auschwitz, urgently needs a new kidney. Soon, the search for a suitable donor organ becomes an obsession for the relatives. Origin, identity, belonging - Doron Rabinovici thoroughly mixes up the dynamics within a Jewish family in his novel "Andernorts," uncovering their old secrets and observing them in new intrigues. In the end.