In the haunted city of Derry, Maine, the setting for King's previous novels "It" and "Insomnia, " four young boys stood together and did a brave thing 25 years ago. The boys, now grown men, still get together once a year to hunt in the north woods of Maine. But when a man stumbles into their camp, muttering about lights in the sky, these old friends are plunged into a terrible struggle with a creature from another world.