Where No One Would Believe Someone Could Live

Magne Sylvarnes thinks he was created to run a farm in the steep slopes of his homeplace, but the slopes were not created for modern farming. Here, only horses, trail strings and self-rescue are useful.

Bente Aust spent all her youth longing away from Langfjordnes. But the farther she was away from her hometown by the Tanafjord, the stronger her longing was. Now she stretches the boundaries of what can be done in a place like this.

In a small cabin without electricity and water, Trond Henning Monan manages himself. The young man has lived a wandering life, but in the forest outside Kristiansand he has found peace and meaning.

For over ten years, the artist Agnes Tiffon has had Flørli by the Lysefjord for herself and fell in love with the peace and isolation. But then Hessel Haker comes and wants to turn Flørli on its head.

Norvald Bukkestein is a natural product, shaped by a long and occasionally lonely life on the small and roadless family farm by the Veafjord. Time seems to have passed from both him and the farm, but then someone gets to use the knowledge this life has given him.

Lisa Romsdal Kristensen and her husband Steinar chose to carry on the family traditions at Jotkajavvri, but what about the future? Life on the Finnmarksvidda, for example, has no appeal to the next generation.