Maria Elizabeth Louw is Associate Professor at the Department of Anthropology, School of Culture and Society, at Aarhus University. In this episode, Maria gives us the possibility to reflect upon how we can understand ontological others, like a breadcrum, as part of peoples webs of ethical co-existence. Maria introduces us to an understanding of ethics as something that is, and perhaps remains, a riddle for our interlocutors themselves, and how working with these perplexities is part of the project of the researcher on ethics. In Marias field, working with elderly people in Kyrgyzstan, ethics manifests itself as a sense or impulse, not quite graspable and not quite embedded within the individual, problematizing ethics as well defined virtues and individual cultivation.