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Popular romantic fiction novelist Paul Sheldon retires each winter to the hills of Colorado to write another work featuring his heroine Misery Chastain. Driving whilst inebriated, he loses control of his car. When he regains consciousness he is in a filthy, dilapidated farmhouse that is cut off from the outside world by a blizzard. Annie, the schizophrenic occupant, is his number one fan and she insists she will nurse him. His legs are crushed and he is virtually a prisoner dependent on her for pain relief. She discovers that his new novel does not feature Misery and she forces him to destroy the manuscript and write another. Thus begins Paul's descent into a living hell of pain, humiliation and degradation. He must write a new chapter every day just to stay alive.

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