Paris, 1935. Composer Sepp Trautwein, who went into exile after the Nazis came to power, composes the symphony “The Waiting Room”. But after the German police kidnap the emigrant newspaper journalist Friedrich Benjamin, Trautwein is forced to take his place. Now his weapon is the word, and he is not going to retreat until Benjamin is free. A heroic act or a waste of energy? Lion Feuchtwanger, forced to leave his native Germany in 1933 and declared an enemy of the nation in his homeland, wrote an epochal novel written by an exile about exiles, telling the story of those who fight and those who surrender. Completed by the author shortly before the outbreak of war in 1939, Exile completes Lion Feuchtwanger's famous Waiting Room trilogy.