"I can allow myself to write the truth; all the people for whom I have lied throughout my life are dead..." writes the heroine of Marlen Haushofer's "The Wall," a quite ordinary, unnamed middle-aged woman who awakens to find she is the last living person. Accompanied by her dog, she begins the terrifying work of survival, and eventually, self-renewal. "The Wall" is at once a simple and moving chronicle--of growing potatoes and beans, of hoping for a calf, of counting matches, of forgetting the taste of sugar and the use of one's name--and a disturbing meditation on 20th-century history. Now a major motion picture from Music Box Films, "The Wall" is a haunting study of what a person can love when everything has been taken away.