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.

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.