
During the German retreat in WWII, Finnmark and Nord-Troms were laid waste - villages, schools and hospitals razed and 60,000 people driven into mountain hideouts - but, come liberation, those who’d survived in caves and huts returned with fierce determination to rebuild their homeland.
Rolf Søder
Hekki Haldonen
Anne-Lise Tangstad
Alma, Hekkis kone

Solfrid Heier
Herdis
Kåre Tannvik
Ivar
Tove Andreassen
Anne
Bonne Gauguin
Bestemoren

Arne Lindtner Næss
Ilja

Bernt Erik Larssen
Adjutanten
Dagmar Myhrvold
Herdis' bestemor

Egil Hjorth-Jenssen
Herdis' bestefar

Carsten Byhring
Basen
Willem Fricke
SS-mann
Harald Johansen
Erling Zahl
Ludvig Johansen