The Overlook Hotel in the mountains of Colorado every year as the winter closed, only for this time for the care of the building as a janitor committed writer Jack Torrance and his family stay at the hotel, eingeschneit and completed by the outside world.
At the beginning of the film establishes a dialogue between Torrances son and a hotel employee suggests that Jack Torrances transcendental gifted son. Already in this passage is spoken by the Shining. He points to Danny that the hotel is an evil place and he was certain areas of the house should be avoided. Indeed, the hotel is located on an Indian cemetery, and in 1970 killed the then winter caretaker of the hotel in the frenzy his two daughters, his wife and himself
Driven by increasing hallucinations and anxiety dreams Jack Torrance also forfeit the madness and finally attacked his wife Wendy and his son Danny. However, it is Danny in the snow, huge hedge maze of the hotel to escape. They lost a father and erfriert.
