Der ingen skulle tru at nokon kunne bu

In 1990, five people died in a tragic plane crash on Værøy in Lofoten. After that, the vulnerable airport was closed. A good ten years later, Remi Johansen, a young man from Værøy, bought the airport and turned it into his home. Later, his girlfriend also moved in, and now the family lives in the terminal building, while the woman runs a chocolate factory at the bottom of the flight tower.

For forty years, married couple Margot and Per Bjørvik have lived on the roadless farm Aldal in the mountains north of Bolstadøyri in Hordaland. The basis of life has been a flock of sheep and a souvenir factory that Per has started. The goods are transported by cable car, while they themselves make their way on a four-wheeler along a bumpy path. Margot is now in need of care, but Per stands by and takes care of her, because they intend to stay in Aldal.

Ola Braanaas is rich, but he is not like most rich people. He lives alone in a converted farmhouse on an islet in the sea, Svinøyna in Gulen. He has spent NOK 35 million to save an old trading town from decay, and he does not expect to get it back. It is better to spend the money on culture, on something that lasts, than to waste it on the stock exchange, says Braanaas.

Else Juliussen from the most deserted seaside hamlet of Hasfjord in Finnmark is a colorful woman and a Good Samaritan.

They live on one of the highest farms in the country, and they live three miles from the nearest road. Anne Gro was heavily pregnant when she and Åsmund moved to Argehovd in Møsstrond, his family farm, more than twenty years ago. The Løvås couple have lived there from sheep farming and tourism, and there they have brought up two daughters, who had to live in a boarding school for all their school years. Neither the parents nor the girls are sorry that they chose Argehovd.

Tore Amarius has lived a turbulent life, with drugs, violence and broken relationships as some of the ingredients. When he became a Buddhist, life took a new turn. Now he lives with his wife and son as the only permanent residents on Nordre Sandøy in Hvaler, and there he and Lene have tried to get young people from a difficult background on the right track. But in the summer three years ago, something dramatic happened that would once again make life difficult for Tore Amarius.

Marit Kvam and Arnfinn Lislien met at an agricultural school. They were to become farmers. But instead of finding a large and easy-to-run farm, they chose a steep and stony small farm on the roadless side at the top of Romsdalen. In the hills of Brulia, the scythe and the rake are still important travel companions. In addition, they fall on one seat, while they have their legs on another. They do it to keep the traditions alive and the cultural landscape intact.