In an effort to save his mom from being evicted from her home, upcoming college basketball star Jamaal Bishop risks it all by entering the drug game.

In 1974, 14-year-old Joseph Florio arrived at Divine Light Catholic Preparatory Seminary expecting faith, discipline, and a future in clerical life. What he finds instead is a closed world of corruption, intimidation, and buried secrets. When Joseph uncovers truths that others will do anything to protect, he becomes the next target. Fueled by suspense, moral conflict, and coming-of-age intensity, When Angels Fear follows one boy's fight to survive a system built on silence, and to expose the darkness hiding behind holy walls.