Four months after the tragic car accident that killed their parents, 17 year old Elena Gilbert and her 15 year old brother,Jeremy, are still adjusting to their new reality. Elena has always been the star student; beautiful, popular and involved with school and friends, but now she finds herself struggling to hide her grief from the world. Elena and Jeremy are now living with their cool-but-overwhelmed Aunt Jenna, who is doing her best to be a surrogate parent. Elena manages to find some comfort with her familiar social circle...her best friend Bonnie, unknown frenemy Caroline, and ex-boyfriend Matt, but Jeremy is on a more dangerous path, hanging out with the stoners and using drugs to hide his pain. Jeremy is also trying to figure out why Matt's sister, Vicki, is suddenly rejecting him and hanging out with Jeremy's rival, Tyler. As the school year begins at Mystic Falls High School, Elena and her friends are fascinated by a handsome and mysterious new student, Stefan Salvatore. Stefan and Elena are immediately drawn to one another, although Elena is puzzled by Stefan's increasingly bizarre behavior when he appears suddenly at the cemetery where her parents are buried. What she doesn't realize is that Stefan is hiding a dark, deadly secret of his own... the fact that he's a 162 year old vampire. Then at a bonfire party chaos erupts after Vicki is attacked and left bleeding from a savage bite to the neck. Fearing that he knows who is responsible for the attack, Stefan returns home and finds his older brother,Damon, whom he hasn't seen for 15 years. Also reunites with his sister Dani,who is also a vampire along with Damon, and the two brothers have a long and bitter history with Dani stuck in the middle of it. Now she has to stop her two vampire brothers from raging a war for Elena's soul and for the souls of her friends, family and all the residents of Mystic Falls. The Vampire Diaries - Season One
11 parts