The unnamed narrator of The Wall is a middle-aged woman who, one morning during a weekend at a friends' country house in the Austrian Alps, concludes that she is all alone. She sets out to investigate and, while walking in the mountains, comes across an impenetrable glass wall, which completely isolates her from the rest of the world. Through the glass, she sees a farmer in the distance, standing in the familiar landscape as if petrified. All the humans seem to have perished; nature is otherwise untouched. Her friends' dog, Luchs, returns from the village alone. In the days following her discovery, it slowly dawns on her that she is the only survivor and will have to learn to fend for herself in these hopeless conditions. A cat and a cow join her and, together with Luchs, form her new family.