The Last Night at Fjell

Margit has run the hotel since 1912 and knows every creaking floorboard in it. Tonight she is giving the farewell dinner for the last guests; as of tomorrow she no longer has a position.

For eight winters Eirik has led the guests through the high mountains and kept charge of the ski room. He says little, and in any weather he can tell when it is about to turn.

Liv grew up in the hotel and has kept house for her father since her mother died. She learned of the hotel's sale from the newspaper.

Doctor Aas has a practice in Bergen and has come to Fjell for two weeks every winter for many years, always staying in Room 7. In the house Aas is thought of as quiet, helpful and a good listener.

Jo Vik is here to photograph the hotel's last evening for an illustrated magazine and has set up a darkroom in the old linen room. It is Jo's first time at Fjell, and Jo looks at everything very closely.

For twenty years Nils has kept the little stop below the hotel, with its telegraph and its signal lamps. He likes to tell how things used to be on the line. Tonight the storm has left him stranded at the hotel.