In a small city in California's San Joaquin Valley, 14-year-old Homer Macauley is decided to be the most effective and quickest bicycle telegraph messenger anybody has ever seen. His older brother has gone to battle, leaving Homer to take care of his widowed mom, his older sister and his 4-year-old brother, Ulysses. And so it's that as spring turns to summer time, 1942, Homer Macauley delivers messages of affection, hope, ache... and dying... to the great folks of Ithaca. And Homer Macauley will grapple with one message that can change him perpetually - from a boy into a person. Based mostly on Pulitzer Prize-winning writer William Saroyan's 1943 novel, The Human Comedy, ITHACA is the quintessential wartime story of the House Entrance. It's a coming-of-age story concerning the exuberance of youth, the sweetness of life, the sting of dying and the modesty and sheer goodness that lives in every considered one of us.
