The island belonged to the narrator's great-aunt, with whom we gradually become acquainted. During the performance, we get to hear, through a jigsaw puzzle of stories, about a very meaningful life, lived by a unique woman.
From a revoked engagement in the 1930s, an escape from Oslo on April 10, 1940 and a wedding, to how she as a widow becomes Norway's first female ship dispatcher and takes care of sick boats. She uses her financial security, among other things, to take care of young people in her immediate family who need a temporary home. One of her foster sons, who turns out to be the narrator's father, eventually returns home with a "German girl" from her studies in Germany.