Mischa Kuball identifies a situation that often occurs but is rarely noticed in the urban environment of Graf-Adolf-Straße in Düsseldorf. Düsseldorf's central synagogue once stood on Kasernenstraße. During the November pogroms of 1938, it was set on fire on November 10 and finally demolished a few weeks later.

Today, only a modest memorial installed at the roadside commemorates the monumental building. The cityscape around the memorial stone is dominated by buildings such as the neoclassical Walzstahlhaus, the local health insurance building constructed in 1905 in the Reform architecture style, and the AOK building, built in the 1920s in the New Building style.

Mischa Kuball rediscovered this ensemble of architectural and social heterogeneity, which was created in less than 40 years, through its missing elements, connections, and contemporary witnesses:
"As part of the rebranding and the idea of developing Graf-Adolf-Straße in Düsseldorf as a cultural narrative, I would like to draw attention to the destroyed synagogue and the equally destroyed rabbi's house of the Jewish community in Düsseldorf and the surrounding area. Currently, only a memorial stone refers to this cultural center of Jewish life—when viewed up close, it is almost invisible in Düsseldorf's cityscape. In 2023, missing link_ wants to highlight this historical significance with an installation that will initially be temporary and later permanent—and use the surrounding ensemble, including the rolled steel building and local health insurance office, to keep the memories of this missing element alive."