Kyle Murphy, just a seemingly average seventeen-year-old boy from New Terman in New Hampshire, America, abruptly has his entire life flipped upside down before he can even graduate high school. After coming of age he is expected to receive great power, but months come and go, exceeding the usual time frame, with no sign of any form of power, leading to Kyle only feeling self-doubt and worry about his very existence: being a Witness - a supernatural being.