Three years ago, the 55-year-old family man Oddbjørn Selnes returned to his childhood home on Flatøy in Troms, an island with no route connections of any kind. There he lives as a fish farmer. The only person living there when he arrived was an elderly woman in need of care. His family did not join, but they respect him for what he did.

In Åsligrenda west of Dokka in Oppland, Kari Nøssvold runs a small farm together with her mother. An aunt and an uncle live a short distance away. More are not yet in the once so populous mountain hamlet. But now Kari has got a boyfriend from Oslo, and soon she will become a mother.

22-year-old Nils Christian Gjefsjø has recently taken over his father's farm, Gjevsjøen, on the Swedish border in Nord-Trøndelag. He lives there with his parents. If he is going to Snåsa, the nearest village, he must walk three miles over the mountain. Or he can travel by boat and car through Sweden, a detour of 25 miles.

On Litle Færøy in Solund municipality lives the juniper farmer Roar Moe. Together with a group of friends, he has taken over and restored an old homestead. Now he lives there to give school pupils and other young people who come by an insight into the old coastal culture, at sea and on land.

Elin Skålid and Tor Bolstad Jensen, together with their three minor children, have settled down on the lonely, abandoned mountain farm Skålid in Fyresdal, where Elin's father came from. There they dig up land, build houses and power plants there and invest in cattle breeding. But the best room in the old house must be without electricity. They will have a sound studio there!

Fifteen years ago, Per Sørflaten started a new life. He didn't want to be a slave to the clock and the machine anymore. Instead, he sought peace and freedom in the wilderness of Laksfjordvidda in Finnmark. Here he lives in a house that is somewhere between an old house and a Viking house, and although he has a past as a power plant machinist, he has no electricity or water installed.