"The Death of a Friend" is the simple yet heartbreaking story of the young folks and residents of a small town in Western North Carolina in the midst of a tragedy just days before Christmas. What is supposed to be a time of joy and merriment is ultimately shattered when one of the town's most prominent citizens leaves the house and never comes back, and then the horror of the unimaginable happens. Only God knows what has happened between the time of the disappearance and the time of the grisly discovery. In the wake of the incident, some of those left behind start to lose their sanity, their job, their zeal for life, and all hope and faith in God until they learn that someone out there just might be a killer...