Marit is a single mother living in Oslo with her two children Iris and Robert. She is overworked as a chef and sees an advertisement for a family with 2 children to run a bed and breakfast on an island, Ylvingen, in the northern parts of Norway. The islanders have posted the advert as their local school is due to close due to only 3 children attending, they need an extra 2 children to keep the school open. They are successful in their application to move to the island when Marit persuades her friend Kim to pretend to be her husband.