Twice, strong central powers managed to drive Ingebjørg Gamst away from Vorterøy in the Lyngenfjorden. Each time she has returned at the first opportunity, and this time she will be there for good. - I didn't come to Vorterøy to die, I came to live, says Ingebjørg.

When the girlfriend of Dag Fagermyr at the children's school revealed that she did not want to live up in the forest heaths at Fagermyr in Tvedestrand, she was dismissed on gray paper. Because Dag has always known that it was up here where he should live.