One hundred years ago in 1923, Stockholm's city hall was inaugurated. A documentary about how the controversial architect Ragnar Östberg (1866-1945), through strikes, war and years of crisis, fights together with craftsmen and artists to create Sweden's last monumental building built entirely by hand - a house for the newly won democracy. With unique archive material, we go behind the scenes in Stockholm's city hall both a hundred years ago - but also today. In the film, we meet royalty, glitter of gold but also cleaners and construction workers and get to see something other than the glamour of the Nobel Prize Celebration.