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The citizens of Chester's Mill, Maine, find their relationships strained and lives in danger after an inexplicable force field develops around the town, cutting it off from the outside world and resulting in a power struggle between local politician and drug lord Big Jim Rennie, who enjoys the idea of dominating an isolated populace, and people who disagree with Jim and want to investigate the origins of the dome.

Months after a driver plows through the masses lined up at a job fair in a stolen Mercedes, killing eight and wounding fifteen before escaping, retired cop Bill Hodges is haunted by the unsolved crime.