A woman joins a couple of friends at a mountain hut. In the evening, her friends go down to the valley to spend a few hours in the town, while the women stays with the dog. On the following morning she makes a worrying discovery: the two have not returned. The woman goes to the village to look for them, but finds herself faced with an invisible wall, behind which there would seem to be no sign of life, dividing her from the rest of the world. Along with the dog, a cat and a cow, she must survive on the mountain. In order not to go mad she keeps a diary of her thoughts, fears and the difficulties she meets, even if nobody will ever read it. Taken from the bestseller “The Wall” by Marlen Haushofer, the film combines reality and imagination, dealing with the delicate question of the relationship between man and nature. The great German actress Martina Gedeck portrays the transformation of a woman suddenly obliged to live a new life.