The Overlook Hotel claimed the most beautiful physical setting of any resort in the world; but Jack Torrance, with his wife, Wendy and their son Danny, discover much more than its natural splendor, Jack takes a new job as a winter caretaker, cut off from civilization for months with hopes to battle alcoholism and uncontrolled rage while writing a play. Danny, who possesses precognitive powers or ‘The Shining’, connects with the hotel cook Dick Halloran who shares these same powers. As the hotel begins to reveal its long and violent history to Danny through disturbing visions, Wendy insists that they leave the hotel immediately. However, Jack is becoming obsessed; the Overlook, frustrated that it cannot possess Danny, begins to possess Jack. Increasingly unstable, Jack destroys the CB radio in the hotel — the only means of contact to the outside world – after the voice on the other end tells him to kill his family. Wendy, frightened, chastises Jack for trapping them in the hotel, as Danny appears with his clothes wet, bruises around his neck, and lipstick marks on his face. The Overlook is crumbling around them and revealing all of its apparitions. Soon enough, Jack succombs to the Overlook’s control, intent on murdering his family. Cornered by a deranged Jack, Wendy and Danny fight him off for the time being, hoping that someone – or something – will help them escape.