Hoping to combat a severe case of writer's block, Jack takes his family to an isolated hotel for some peace and quiet. But when the hotel turns out to have a sinister entity haunting its halls, Jack slowly starts to lose his grip on reality as his sanity deteriorates, putting his family in danger.
Traumatized by his childhood experience at the Overlook Hotel, Dan has struggled to move on and lead a peaceful existence where his "shining" isn't a curse. When he comes across Abra, a teen with a strong shining, he enters a desperate fight to save her from a cult that feeds on children's shining.