A child with a precognitive gift sees visions of an evil awaiting his family.

A writer and his family are snowbound in a hotel and are haunted by either the hotel itself or the writer's dementia.

Dan Torrance remains traumatized by the sinister events that occurred at the Overlook Hotel when he was a child, spending his days self-medicating away the 'shine' with alcohol. His hope for a peaceful existence soon becomes shattered when he meets Abra, a teen who shares his extrasensory gift.' Together, they form an unlikely alliance to battle the True Knot, a cult whose members try to feed off the shine of innocents to become immortal.