Following the death of his adoptive parents, young Damien Thorn, the Antichrist child from the first film, is sent to live with his aunt and uncle and enrolled in a military academy, unaware of his own demonic nature. As he approaches his teenage years, those around him who begin to suspect the truth about his identity die in a series of elaborately staged "accidents," while Damien himself starts to awaken to the terrible destiny laid out for him. William Holden and Lee Grant star as his adoptive relatives in this sequel to The Omen, expanding the mythology established by the original.