An angel working at a dry cleaners in Heaven borrows a customer's wings for a joy ride and crash lands in his hometown of Chillicothe, Missouri. Now Michael has forty-eight hours to repair his broken wings, or he will never see Heaven again.

SYNOPSIS:

Michael Bliss' life ended forty-eight years ago when he lost control of his car after swerving to avoid hitting a squirrel darting across the road.

Since then, Michael has been bored to tears working at Cloudy Cleaners, one of the many dry-cleaning businesses operating in Heaven.

When they're not dealing with angelic customers dropping off or picking up dry-cleaned wings—frustrating because they don't have their own wings—Michael and co-worker Seth pass the time repeatedly swatting an annoying fly named Al, who refuses to die.

With the weekend approaching, Seth departs work early to meet his sister, who's scheduled to arrive in Heaven within hours. This leaves Michael to operate Cloudy Cleaners by himself for the rest of the day.

While on his own, Michael tries on a pair of his customer's wings and takes an impromptu joy ride that ends disastrously when he crashes lands on Earth in a backyard swimming pool in Chillicothe, Missouri, the same town he lived in when he died.

To complicate an already bad situation, it turns out that Al the fly tagged along in Michael's pocket for the joy ride, which means that both heavenly travelers now find themselves stranded.

With the wings he borrowed severely damaged when he crashed, Michael's only hope for putting things right rests with three children: David Monroe, a thirteen-year-old academic slacker, Dory, a young girl with a penchant for successful science fair projects; and Dory's nine-year-old brother Charlie, who may or may not be a budding genius.

The clock is ticking.

During this time, Michael reunites with his widow, visits his suffering-from-dementia brother in a touching moment of clarity, and contends with the delicate reconstruction of his damaged wings, all while fending off the increasingly aggressive efforts of the mysterious Mr. Ochs, an emissary from the Underworld determined to thwart Michael's plans for returning to Heaven.

Michael has forty-eight hours to get his broken wings repaired for the flight back Upstairs or face the genuine possibility that he will be treated as a fallen angel and banished to hell.