Shy and withdrawn, William Denbrough is new to his school, unusually smart (a grade ahead) and the silent tension at home nearly unbearable. Mom, Dad, and Bill have moved constantly, town after town, landing, inexplicably, in god-fearing "Derry, Maine". Stanley Uris, a year older than Bill, confident and hard-working, drives the bus to their school because he was assigned to. while a friendship blooms between them into a relationship that is fraught with confusion and yearning. But secrets pick at the relationship, the unspoken rules of their angst-driven interactions unravel as Bill's world again comes crashing inwards. Tension crescendos as shame and terror, stress and disaster all compete to immobilize and destroy both of their worlds. (LOWER CASE INTENDED)

Stan stumbles across Bill and his friends pages. He fascinated by how amazing they all are at photography, especially Bill.