"Buck and the Angel" is the faith based story of a fatherless twelve year-old boy that lives with his grandparents and dying mother in the small rural southern town of Newnan, Georgia in 1955. For a young boy of twelve Buck's life is far too complicated. From the almost daily tardiness at school and the target of the classroom bully, Buck now has to find a way to deal with an angel only he can see and hear who promises to relieve his mother of her pain; but the discovery that the angel is one of death leaves Buck with the lone burden of finding a way to thwart the angel's plans in a race with time, before his mother's runs out.