Pink’s wall didn't go up overnight. It was built brick by brick, starting from the day his father was lost to the chaos of World War II, leaving a "black hole" in his childhood. Other bricks soon followed:

But the human spirit can only stay buried for so long. Inside the courtroom of his own mind, Pink was put on trial by the "Worm." His crimes? Showing feelings of an almost human nature. The judge—a giant, grotesque figure—delivered the ultimate sentence: .

Teachers who mocked his poetry and treated students like sausages in a factory line.