Can the relationship with a person be renewed - even after their death? Verena Lueken's powerful debut "Everything Matters" received high praise from the literary critics. In her new novel, a woman confronts the ghosts of her family history and embarks on a search for the traces of her deceased father. The protagonist of "Elsewhere" leads a restless life, with being on the move as her normal state. She works as a travel journalist, spending most of the early summer weeks in New York. The rest of the year, she is here and there - wherever life takes her. A funeral unexpectedly reopens old wounds. Memories of her father resurface. But what is truly painful is not the early injuries. It is the lack of shared experiences: "Her father and she, they had missed each other." She no longer wants to accept this void.