8 parts Ongoing Richie Tozier, an only child with not the best parents, who decided he's too much of a pain and a waste of space, send him off to a foster home in a small town in Hawkins, Indiana. There he meets a boy who looks identical to him. The woman who is fostering him is a woman who had worked with children who have been through the same types of experiences and trauma that he has gone through. She tries her very best to get Richie to talk about everything that happened to him during that dreadful summer in his hometown Derry, Maine. While Richie leaves behind the most important people in his life, he thinks that he might at least be able to start a new life, but the first night he spends in Hawkins, he gets a visit from the one thing he thought he had killed. But it's back. And this time, it's stronger than ever.