A hotel in the mountains of Colorado. Jack Torrance, an out-of-touch intellectual with psycho problems, gets the job as a janitor he applied for. Together with his wife Wendy and his son Danny he arrives in the last days of autumn. The hotel "Overlook" is a disreputable place. Whoever surrenders to it, falls prey to it, becomes the executive organ of all the bad dreams and desires that manifest themselves in it. The nightmare begins ...