Sigbjørn Hølmebakk
Lina is in her best age, mid-30s. She is strong-willed, resilient and self-conscious. There has never been a man in her life, on the contrary, she even had to play the man's role on the small farm to sustain herself and the parents. But the quest for true love and longing for a man is still strong. She has never had the opportunity to realize this dream in the confined environment she lives in. Her obstinacy has also scared off the men. But one day Gilbert returned to the village after being in America for 20 years.
Father and mother Andersen and their four children live in a closed down farmside storehouse in the outskirts of Oslo. They enjoy life here, but the many neibours surrounding them are less enthusiastic about the family's lack of respect towards the supposed social order and decency they live by.
A family on an island in Southern Norway rescues a carrier pigeon. When the father and son later are lost at sea, the bird comes in handy.
Salve is a shepherd, and meets the young boy Kjell, when on his way to a show with a sheep he thinks will win the big prize.
A lawyer comes up with a devious plan to kill his half sister and frame another man for the crime.
