Based on Pink Floyd's massively succesful 1979 double album, and highly autobiographical of Floyd songwriter Roger Waters, 'The Wall' tells the story of 'Pink'; a musician increasingly isolated from people his own humanity by drug use and excess. It starts with Pink's childhood, his coddling mother, his persecuation at school for being 'artistic', his artistic rise to stardom, and his eventual mental collapse, whose only remedy is to tear down the emotional wall which he has built around himself.