Ithaca

Primavera del 1942. Dopo la partenza del fratello per il fronte, Homer Macauley,14 anni, è determinato a diventare il più veloce portalettere dell’ufficio del telegrafo così da poter mantenere la sua numerosa famiglia. E così, mentre sull’isola di Ithaca la primavera lascia il posto all’estate, il giovane Homer passa le sue giornata a recapitare messaggi d’amore e di speranza ma anche di dolore e morte, finché anche lui non riceverà un messaggio che gli cambierà la vita per sempre

Au début des années 40, en Californie. Lorsque son frère aîné part au combat, un garçon de 14 ans doit s'occuper de son frère cadet, de sa soeur et de sa mère, alors que le père de famille est décédé.

In a small town in California's San Joaquin Valley, 14-year-old Homer Macauley is determined to be the best and fastest bicycle telegraph messenger anyone has ever seen. His older brother has gone to war, leaving Homer to look after his widowed mother, his older sister and his 4-year-old brother, Ulysses. And so it is that as spring turns to summer, 1942, Homer Macauley delivers messages of love, hope, pain... and death... to the good people of Ithaca. And Homer Macauley will grapple with one message that will change him forever - from a boy into a man. Based on Pulitzer Prize-winning author William Saroyan's 1943 novel, The Human Comedy, ITHACA is the quintessential wartime tale of the Home Front. It is a coming-of-age story about the exuberance of youth, the sweetness of life, the sting of death and the modesty and sheer goodness that lives in each and every one of us.