Dr Louis Creed and his family leave Chicago and move to a rambling house on the outskirts of Ludlow, New England. When the family meet their old and wily neighbour, Jud Crandall, he shows them the "Pet Sematary" where local children have buried their pets for generations. But beyond this area is a much older burial ground, used by the MicMac Indians, and touched by the essence of evil.