Where No One Would Believe Someone Could Live

Oddvar Berntsen is the hermit of Kirkefjorden, the only remaining resident of this town at the far south edge of beautiful, wild Lofoten.

Femundshytta, or Femund Lodge, is a monolithic but very old settlement which lies 10 kilometers from the nearest road. Klas and Milda are the only two isolated humans living in this outback.

Jenny grew up in wealthy Westport in Connecticut, USA. She’s never owned a computer, a car or a television. But every evening she sits in front of her loom weaving, and she goes out to milk the cow from the lantern-light. Jenny Endresen lives on the remote mountain farm Moslid in Telemark, southern Norway, without any electricity or roads. She lives as farmers did a hundred years ago. The purpose is to be self-sufficient and avoid contributing to the mechanical system destroying the earth.

Knut Kastnes realized his dreams of becoming a farmer when he acquired the remote Sæterstad farm in Hattfjelldal. He moved into a semi-derelict house, then Siri from Trondheim came aa a milkmaid. They would come to share both work and life.

Kirsten Lundsgaardvig, an internationally acclaimed Danish artist, is now a naturalized Norwegian. She lives in Homevassevje in West Agder county, in a preserved old farmhouse which previously served as housing for thirteen workers.

Severin Rønes is a 25 year old man living in a solitary beach farm by a fjord. He's happy as a farmer and hunter on Rønes, the land of his ancestors.