The plot of Dr. Sleep requires an understanding of the plot of “The Shining” and the history of Danny Torrance at the Overlook Hotel, where angry ghosts wanted to consume his “shining power.”
As an adult, Dan, like his father, is an alcoholic who finally ends up in New Hampshire, where he gives up drinking, and his psychic abilities come back. He can offer comfort to dying patients in the hospice home he works in and gains the nickname’ Dr. Sleep.’
Dan meets Abra Stone, a young girl with the same powers that he has, only much more robust. Abra psychically witnesses the ritual torture and murder of a boy by the True Knot, a group of psychic vampires, many of which possess their own "shine" abilities. The True Knot members feed on "steam,” a psychic essence produced when the people who have the shining die in pain. The True Knot's leader, Rose the Hat, becomes aware of Abra's existence and formulates a plan to kidnap Abra and keep her alive, making her produce a limitless supply of steam.
Dan and Abra team up to fight the True Kno,t and the plot holds our attention and seems as good as the plot of “TheShiningn.”.
Now, you need to listen to me. The world is a hungry place, a dangerous place, and a dark place. I’ve only met two or three people like us. They died. When I was a kid, I bumped into these things. I don’t know about magic. I always called it the shining.
Life was a wheel, its only job was to turn, and it always returned to where it started.
The good thing about being old is you don’t have to worry about dying young.