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