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Will Byers vanishes after encountering a monster while cycling home from a D&D game. His friends, Dustin, Lucas, and Mike, search for him and find Eleven, a girl with psychokinetic powers, who joins their investigation. Will's mother, Joyce, experiences supernatural events in their home, believing Will is trying to contact her, while Chief Hopper investigates a nearby suspicious laboratory. Simultaneously, Nancy, Mike's sister, attends a party, setting another storyline in motion.

Young Will Byers is cycling home from a Dungeons & Dragons campaign at a friend's house, when a terrifying figure suddenly appears, Will tries to escape and hide, but the Monster abducts him to an alternate dimension. Will's friends Dustin, Lucas and Mike begin investigating his disappearance; while looking for Will in the local forest, the boys find a girl with a shaved head in a hospital gown, who they let stay in Mike's basement. They learn her "name" is Eleven and discover she possesses psychokinetic abilities.

Will's mother, Joyce, becomes transfixed by supernatural events affecting the house electricity - she's convinced Will is communicating with her. As these strange events continue, she witnesses (and is threatened by) the same monster that took Will. Meanwhile, police chief Jim Hopper grows suspicious of the nearby national laboratory and begins researching into the facility's shady history. Mike's older sister Nancy attends a pool party hosted by her new boyfriend Steve, be