
As part of his "shine" powers, Danny can see spirits like Dick Hallorann (Carl Lumbly). His mother, Wendy (Alex Essoe), has become concerned since he hasn't spoken since their time there, but he still has nightmares of the spirits from the hotel, such as the Grady Twins and the Bathtub Lady from Room 237. Elsewhere, Danny Torrance (Roger Dale Floyd) is still getting over the trauma from his ordeal at the Overlook Hotel. Rose tells Violet that she has a bit of magic in her, right before she and all the other people in the woods converge on Violet. The girl then notices other people lurking nearby, watching them. She introduces herself as Rose The Hat (Rebecca Ferguson), and she charms Violet with magic tricks. One afternoon, she wanders into the woods where she finds a woman sitting alone by the lake. Florida, 1981 A little girl named Violet Hansen (Violet McGraw) is out on a camping trip with her family.The synopsis below may give away important plot points. Now, once more, the restless and famished spirits of Colorado's snow-capped purgatory in the mountains invite Dan over for one last winter. But, their strong telepathic bond attracts the attention of the semi-eternal psychic vampire, Rose the Hat, and her marauding gang of followers known as The True Knot, who prey on the innocent, and feed off the effervescent essence of pain. However, after managing for years to suppress his rare gift, Dan decides to put "The Shining" to good use as the local hospice's benevolent "Doctor Sleep" and before he knows it, he makes contact with Abra Stone: a young girl with far more superior shining abilities.

Still tormented by the past's uncomfortable memories, decades after surviving the harsh winter at the Overlook Hotel in The Shining (1980), it's only natural that a now-sad Dan Torrance has grown up into an alcoholic and a drifter. When he learns that a cult of evil beings called The True Knot are chasing her with the intent to eat her shine, he does everything in his power to protect her.including returning to The Overlook. He then meets Abra Stone, a teenager with the brightest shine he's ever seen. He moves to a small town in New Hampshire and becomes "Doctor Sleep".


Years after the traumatizing events at the Overlook Hotel, Dan Torrance is now an alcoholic struggling to find a job. Aided by a prescient cat, he becomes "Doctor Sleep." Then Dan meets the evanescent Abra Stone, and her spectacular gift, the brightest shining ever seen, reignites Dan's own demons and summons him to a battle for Abra's soul and survival. Finally, he settles in a New Hampshire town, an AA community that sustains him, and a job at a nursing home where his remnant "shining" power provides the crucial final comfort to the dying. Haunted by the inhabitants of the Overlook Hotel where he spent one horrific childhood year, Dan has been drifting for decades, desperate to shed his father's legacy of despair, alcoholism, and violence. But as Dan Torrance knows, and tween Abra Stone learns, The True Knot are quasi-immortal, living off the "steam" that children with the "shining" produce when they are slowly tortured to death. They look harmless: mostly old, lots of polyester, and married to their RVs. On highways across America, a tribe of people called The True Knot travel in search of sustenance. Years following the events of The Shining (1980), a now-adult Dan Torrance must protect a young girl with similar powers from a cult known as The True Knot, who prey on children with powers to remain immortal.
