A desire to break off with civilization drives a dreamer Isaac to the backwood, where he tries to find sense of life in peaceful peasant labour and simple domestic happiness with rural girl Ингер.So one of the strongest and deep realistic works of ХХ of century begins, novel, bringing to the author the Nobel prize on literature for 1920 and sounding as a hymn to earth, labour and people working on her.Гамсун does not idealize the personages, he admires their dignities and defects, their force and weakness, with rapture talks about their expectations and hopes, little victories and large defeats, calling society in a height First world war to appeal to the world and constructive labor.