Lenny and Saline’s parents brought them to SouthernCalifornia to escape the nightmares. But after their parents die in a horriblecar accident, their adoption by longtime family friend Busek proves nightmarishin its own right. Busek is abusive to his son, Dustin, and does very little tohold the young family together. The trio of kids become friends and grow uptogether, though as teens the emotional aftermath of Saline and Lenny’sparents’ death lingers and eventually catapults Lenny and Saline on individualjourneys back to their old town in Washington. But is it childhood memoriesthat draw them there or something that nightmares are made of? Meanwhile,Dustin stays back in Southern California and meets a group of youth who stumbleupon the cities’ plan to replace the library with a jail. In the process ofthis discovery they learn of one of the biggest secrets society has ever kept,a secret waiting for them underground, in blackness.
