Ellen Marie Hansteensen has a past as a freelance journalist, and she has worked for international peacekeeping forces in the Middle East. But one day the Ausland woman broke with the hectic life she was living and sought shelter at Litløy lighthouse in Bø in Vesterålen. Here she lives with two cats, but now she plans to start tourism, so that more people can share in the paradise she has found.

Ingvar Aabrek Klingenberg, village boy from Trondheim, former museum director and art historian, has settled in a small remote cabin in Hitra, where the family had a holiday resort. He has no running water, he has no road to the yard, he cooks his food on grass, and what little electricity he has, he gets from a solar panel. But there Klingenberg sits and writes literary works about art history.