Against all odds, Otto von Spreckelsen, a Danish architect, wins the 1982 competition. Overnight, this 53-year-old man, unknown in France, arrives in Paris where he is propelled to the helm of this pharaonic project. While the architect intends to build the Great Arch exactly as he envisioned, his ideas quickly clash with realistic constraints and the vicissitudes of politics.
Stéphane Demoustier’s extraordinary film stars Claes Bang, Sidse Babett Knudsen, Xavier Dolan, Swann Arlaud and Michel Fau.