本片用迷幻的影像和摇滚乐讲述了一个非典型乐队主唱的成长史。儿时，平克（鲍勃•吉尔道夫 Bob Geldof 饰）的父亲在二战中身亡，母亲与家庭医生关系暧昧，这让他幼小心灵备受创伤。在学校，他对呆板的填鸭教育深恶痛绝，时刻准备着绝地反击。成年后，他在泡吧时结识了风骚的舞女，并与之发生了关系。然而，性欲的满足感并没有维持太久，他就厌倦了这种不靠谱的感情，特别是他对于女人的怀疑和嫉妒达到了无以复加的地步，因此当对方再度示好投怀送抱的时候，他便歇斯底里地爆发了，仿佛要把全世界都砸碎了才算安心。在此期间，他还表达了强烈的反战情绪和愤世嫉俗的观念，在物质丰富的生活中，他的精神生活极度匮乏，在工业化大行其道的环境里，他还固守着梦想的断壁残垣……The movie tells the story of rock singer "Pink" who is sitting in his hotel room in Los Angeles, burnt out from the music business and only able to perform on stage with the help of drugs. Based on the 1979 double album "The Wall" by Pink Floyd, the film begins in Pink's youth where he is crushed by the love of his mother. Several years later, he is punished by the teachers in school because he is starting to write poems. He slowly begins to build a wall around himself to be protected from the world outside. The film shows all this in massive and epic pictures until the very end where he tears down the wall and breaks free.