When his childhood friend is killed in a tragic accident just before their senior year of high school, Click Ferguson is thrown into a role that was never meant for him to play. Flowers for the May Queen follows the life of a young man who was in the wrong place at the right time, and how he quickly discovers the difference between the price of fame and the cost of fame. With the world at his fingertips, the only thing missing is the girl he can never have. His journey takes him far from his rural Alabama home in the 1960s, but his heart remains behind, torn between the woman he loves and the one he is forced to be with.