Der ingen skulle tru at nokon kunne bu

Gaundalen, a mountain farm in North Trondheim near the Swedish border, where a mother, Ingeborg Gaundal (82) and a son, Steinar (51), live. Three mile footpath to the nearest neighbour. To solve the communication problem, Steinar has built an airstrip behind the barn and bought a private plane.

Givær is a small island community in the Vestfjorden, an hour's journey by speedboat from Bodø. 14 people live here when they are fully grown, but during Lofoten fishing, only the women remain. Olaug Olsen (29) is one of them. After being away for ten years, she has returned home to take over her parents' small farm.

Styvi in the Nærøyfjorden, a lonely beach farm along one of the most famous fjord arms in the country. Here, Botolv Hov (82) lives alone in the winter, the only permanent resident on a roadless farm along the Nærøyfjord. In the summer, he is joined by his wife, and together they have built up an extensive farm museum.

Risberget is a small farm in Finnskogen where the married couple Liv and Trond Burud have settled. They lived in Oslo and worked in the computer industry, but had enough of the hustle and bustle and broke away. Now they make a living by making handicraft products from wood and by raising tussock and reed. The salary is halved, but they feel richer than before.

Revelsøy, a former trading center in the Ofotfjord, where 85-year-old Alma Jenssen lives completely alone, and she has done so for more than 30 years. For 50 years she has looked after a roadless beacon, now she is content to be a church servant in the chapel at the old burial ground. She fishes for her own use, and a couple of times a week she goes to the mainland for food and mail - if she doesn't sit down.

Kwipt, a previously roadless and abandoned mountain farm in West Telemark. One of those who moved from the farm at a young age, Åsmund Kvipt, returned with his family ten years ago, built a road, demolished the houses and decided to become a farmer. In the city there was tourism. Now he has built a row of houses in the old style, and in one of them, a storehouse, his wife, Janne Sætre Fjellheim, has a pottery workshop.