Buffy Summers (Kristy Swanson) is living the teenage dream – cheerleading, dating the captain of the basketball team, and plenty of shopping with her friends. But her life is interrupted when a mysterious man named Merrick (Donald Sutherland) tells her that she is the Slayer: the one woman called upon to defend the world from vampires.
Reluctant to embrace her destiny, Buffy tries to take her new duties seriously while also maintaining the high school status quo.