After a severe brain haemorrhage, Karin Vinkenes could no longer function in a modern society with noise on all sides. The solution was to retreat to the most stable place she knew of and start over.

Without a cork bridge to the mainland or regular traffic, Ole Kristoffer Vågen runs a dairy farm on the island of Skorpo in the Hardangerfjord. It is cumbersome on the border of the impossible, but nevertheless he prepares the farm for the next generation and well.