October 20, 1998 is the 25th anniversary of the official opening of the Sydney Opera House by the Queen. Jorn Utzon, the architect, was awarded the first prize in a competition to design an Opera House for Sydney. In 1957 he flew to Australia to begin work on the construction of the greatest building Australia has ever seen and, indeed, one of the finest achievements of modern architecture. Utzon was forced from the project in 1966 and has never returned to Australia. This film will chart the dramatic course of the creation of a masterpiece and the tragic, sometimes funny, and compelling story of its conception and construction.