The Faroes are small islands – Jóanes Nielsen, however, is a great internationalist. Born in 1953, Jóanes Nielsen is the most significant Faroe writer alive. For thirty years he went to sea on fish trawlers from Tórshavn; his communist partisanship of the time is remembered in the forms of a red flag and the "Internationale", which Jóanes Nielsen likes to intonate with a music box once in a while. The portrait by Karin Ottarsdóttir – the third that she has dedicated to a Faroe artist – shows Nielsen speaking about his work as a seaman and a poet, and as an oppositional performance artist whose interest lay in "using few means to bring the city to its boiling point". He reflects on the slightly marred relationship to his Faroe homeland and the special position taken by the Faroe Islands within the Danish state. He introduces his literary rolemodels, including the great Faroe poet William Heinesen (1900-1991), but also recites from his own oeuvre of poems, essays and novellas, which he does against the backdrop of impressive natural settings.