Awomanjoinsacoupleonatriptoahuntinglodgeinthemountains.Wheneveningcomes,herfriendsgothepubinthevalleyandthewomanstaysbehindwiththedog.Whenthecoupledoesnotreturnthenextmorningthewomansetsoutforthevillageandmakesanalarmingdiscovery:aninvisiblewall,behindwhichthereappearstobenosignoflife,nowseparatesherfromtherestoftheworld.Leftbehindwithadog,acatandacow,shemusttrytosurvivealoneintheforest.Shekeepsarecordofherthoughts,herfearsandthehardshipshesuffersalthoughnobodymighteverreadheroutpourings.Publishedin1963,AustrianwriterMarlenHaushofer’sbestsellingnovelhasenthralledgenerationsofreadersandhasbeentranslatedintoseventeenlanguages.AustrianscreenwriteranddirectorJulianRomanP?lser’sadaptationwasfilmedinSalzkammergut.P?lsner’sfilmstaysclosetothenovel’soriginaltexts–amixtureoffictionalnarrative,empancipatorychronicleandsocialcriticismwhichasksfundamentalquestionsaboedgenerationsofreadersandhasbeentranslatedintoseventeenlanguages.AustrianscreenwriteranddirectorJulianRomanP?lser’sadaptationwasfilmedinSalzkammergut.P?lsner’sfilmstaysclosetothenovel’soriginaltexts–amixtureoffictionalnarrative,empancipatorychronicleandsocialcriticismwhichasksfundamentalquestionsaboutone’srelationshiptonature,animalsandtooneselfthatarestilltopicaltoday.MartinaGedeckembodiesthetransformationofawomanwhoissuddenlyobligedtoliveacompletelydifferentlife.