A group of friends all live on Elm Street. At night, they're all having the same dream--of the same man. One by one, the man terrorizes them within the curved walls of their dreams, where the rules are his, and the only way out is to wake up.

They soon realize that what happens in their dreams happens for real, and the only way to stay alive is to stay awake. Turning to each other, the friends try to uncover how they became part of this dark fairytale, hunted by this dark man. Functioning on little to no sleep, they struggle to understand why them, why now, and what their parents aren't telling them.

Buried in their past is a debt that has just come due, and to save themselves, they will have to plunge themselves into the mind of the most twisted nightmare of all... Freddy Krueger