Ithaca

In 1942, 14-year-old Homer Macauley strives to be the fastest bicycle telegraph messenger in Ithaca while caring for his widowed mother, sister, and younger brother after his older brother leaves for war. As he delivers messages of love, hope, pain, and death, Homer receives one message that will change his life forever. Based on William Saroyan's novel The Human Comedy, this coming-of-age story explores the exuberance of youth, the pain of loss, and the goodness in humanity.