In depression-era Chicago, harper curtis finds a key to a house that opens on to other times. But it comes at a cost. He has to kill The Shining Girls: bright young women, burning with potential. Curtis stalks them throu...In depression-era Chicago, harper curtis finds a key to a house that opens on to other times. But it comes at a cost. He has to kill The Shining Girls: bright young women, burning with potential. Curtis stalks them through their lives across different eras until, in 1989, one of his victims, kirby mazrachi, survives and starts hunting him back.