Pekka lived outdoors, below one of Slussen's bridges, for a couple of decades. The year 2011 was a fateful year for the venerable traffic carousel. Then it was decided that it should be demolished and replaced by a new one. The filmmaker Johan Palmgren has followed the life in the eye of the storm during this dramatic year. The hub of the story is the secret work of the architects who design the new proposal. They work in his office, located right in the Slussen-carousel. Meanwhile protesters are chanting out in the square to preserve everything as it is. All questions must be resolved until the end of the exhibition opens. Should we have two bridges or one? What to do with Saltsjöbanan old station? And how sunny and cheerful, one can produce the new proposal? Just below the architects, Nina is locking boats. She feels for Pekka and the other homeless, but must sometimes roar to to keep track of them. And sometimes the most remarkable things flows up in the channel beneath her. The hairdresser Christian work in his salon in Blå Gången for twenty years and he enjoys its patrons. He worries about where he will go when lock is lost. Above them all bartender James is working on the fashionable Gondolen. He's looking down at Slussen every day while serving architects tea.—The director

This film is about Slussen in Stockholm. The ugly, poetic, broken, loved lock in the town center. Here all the levels of society meet in a melting pot: the clochards Pekka and Mats who live outdoors under a bridge, the charismatic lock-keeper, Nina, who has a big heart for everyone and the philosophical bartender who comments the development of the Swedish society. And in the middle of it all, the british architect Firm Foster are making new plans for the new Slussen while demonstrators rage outside their door. A beautiful and humoristic description of a place that is about to disappear.