Rune

Runa lives with her family at Melkefoss in Pasvikdalen, and goes to school in Skogfoss. Her greatest passion is horses.

When she told her guidance counselor at school that she wanted to work with horses as an adult, she was told that she can't expect to follow her dreams.

But Runa is a young person who refuses to give up on her dreams, and her family encourages her to keep pursuing them. If she has decided on something, she will work hard to achieve it. Her plan is to move south to be able to follow her dream by going to a proper school that can offer the right education.

"...living right on the border with Russia is not that strange."

She loves the North, and thrives in Pasvikdalen, but thinks there are too few horses there.

Runa is the daughter of Trine Danielsen Beddari who runs Birk Husky, a person who also follows her dreams through hard work.

For Runa, living right on the border with Russia is not that strange. She has more problems crossing the border to become an adult.

In this short documentary, we meet Runa from Pasvik in Norway and Anna from Nikel in Russia. They share their thoughts and invite us into their worlds, on either side of the border.

And it seems like they have a lot in common - as teenagers - even though they live in different countries.