On the world of Remnant, where Huntsmen and Huntresses train to fight the monstrous Grimm, Ruby Rose, Weiss Schnee, Blake Belladonna and Yang Xiao Long study together as Team RWBY at Beacon Academy. A new kind of Grimm called the Nightmare burrows into a person's dreams and feeds on their fears. When it takes hold of Weiss, the heiress of the Schnee Dust Company, her three teammates enter the nightmare itself to pull her out. The opening episodes condense the first volume of the original Rooster Teeth web series before the story goes its own way.