As a young witch, vampire and werewolf learn to strive to grow into their best place of self while fighting their darkest impulses, Hope Mikason - the daughter of Klaus Mikason, at the age of seventeen, along with Alaric Salzman's twin daughters Lizzy and Josie Salzman, and other talented young people, gradually transform into heroes or fall into villains in the Salvatore School, an institution for extraordinary teenagers.