The small town of Derry, Maine, stood as the epitome of peacefulness on the surface. But beneath that deceptive façade lurked an ancient evil, an entity that awakened every 27 years to prey upon the town's children. In the summer of 1989, a group of brave and misfit kids bound together to confront this terror head-on, vowing to put an end to the horrors that haunted their town.

Among them was Bill Denbrough, a young boy with a stutter who had tragically lost his younger brother, Georgie