Howard Roark is a young, brilliant, and uncompromising architect. A revolutionary who renounces the comfort of an architect's office to labour in a stone quarry. Yet he catches the eye of Dominique Francon – the beloved of his former friend and rival Peter Keating – a woman of the highest social circles, whose father owns the quarry. A new obsession is born in both of them, one that will become their fate.
They inhabit worlds that could not be more different from one another, yet both are fatalists. Dominique cannot decide: to love Roark, or destroy him – so that neither of them would have to suffer? The love triangle draws still tighter when Dominique decides to give herself to the media magnate Wynand, so that Keating, her husband at the time, would secure the biggest commission of his life. But Wynand asks for Dominique's hand in marriage, and everything becomes impossibly complicated – for Roark, whom she adores, and her new husband Wynand become inseparable friends.
Performance in Latvian with English surtitles.
Author Ayn Rand
Directed by Viesturs Kairišs