Woraus wir gemacht sind

A country before the start of war. A journey into the unknown. A marriage in danger of death. Niklas Kalf must cope with the incomprehensible: Unknown persons have kidnapped his pregnant wife and are demanding something from him that he does not possess. Niklas Kalf is working on a biography of the Jewish emigrant Eugen Meerkaz and travels with his wife Liz to New York for the first time. But on the third day in the city, which is celebrating the first anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center, Liz disappears without a trace: She has been kidnapped, and Kalf is forced to obtain material connected to a dark secret in the life of Eugen Meerkaz, which turns Kalf's desperate search into a trip to the interior of the USA on the eve of the Iraq war and the portrait of a German abroad. Tue.