Architect Howard Roark is as unyielding as the granite he blasts to build with.Defying the conventios of the word around him he embraces a battle pver two decades against a double-dealing crew of rivals who will stop at nothing to bring him down.Among them perhaps the most trouble some of al is the ambitous Dominigue Francon who may just prove to be Roark's egual.This epic stroy of money power and a man's struggle to succeed on his own terms is a paean to individualism and hımanity's creative potential.