The mountain shelves along the Storfjorden on Sunnmøre have been empty of people for more than a century. But then Kari-Anne Nilsen moved up to one of the wards, Ytste Skotet. At first she was there in the summer and taught children and young people about old farm life. Later, she lived on the roadless and electricityless farm with a horse and dog, a couple of cats, some sheep and a flock of chickens.

Hege and Helge Nordskar come from Oslo, but live and breathe for outdoor life and wildlife. First they created the wilderness garden Langedrag, and after an interlude as souvenir producers in Lommedalen, they have now built a fairy garden at the entrance to Jotunheimen. At Glittersjå, they enjoy mountain life together with wild boar and goats, Scottish highland cattle and Andalusian shepherd horses.

As children of the 68 generation, Bente Thurmann-Nielsen and Tormod Skeie found a small mountain farm in Ryfylke and were going to make a living from it. They stayed, but he earned his living in a library, she at school. Now they have retired. He looks after the small farm, while she runs her own travel company and ships on cultural trips, in the local area as well as to Florence and Rome.

After living in the big city, Gry Schjøll and Dag Hansen decided to seek a quieter life and settled down on an old Finnish farm in Hedmark. They live there with their teenage daughter, Dag works there as a woodcutter, they have built their own chapel there, and both game and predators roam the yard.

Åse Kokaas and Rune Ingebretsen, together with their sons Severin and Johan rydda, have built a farm inside the Setesdalsheiane in Valle municipality. They have paid for the road to the farm themselves, they have built an environmental house in the mountain home, in funk style, they keep goats and breed and train hunting dogs. And not least, they cultivate outdoor life and harvest natural resources.

Ole Arnold Bønå has returned home to take over the lonely, roadless father's farm Bønå, deep in the Vistenfjorden on Helgeland. In addition to running the farm, the parents have established a clay school on Bønå, and in addition to following in their footsteps, Ole Arnold also offers disadvantaged children an offer on the farm.