Genevieve, a very sensible, creative and overachieving 17-year-old students in a respectable, middle class family, seems to be having the perfect ride, until her sanity spectacularly unravels in her first manic episode of Bipolar Disorder.

An exploration of the life of Michael Peterson, his sprawling North Carolina family, and the suspicious death of his wife, Kathleen Peterson.

In a world mostly wiped out by the plague and embroiled in an elemental struggle between good and evil, the fate of mankind rests on the frail shoulders of the 108-year-old Mother Abagail and a handful of survivors. Their worst nightmares are embodied in a man with a lethal smile and unspeakable powers: Randall Flagg, the Dark Man.