Ithaca (2015)

At the age of fourteen, Homer Macauley is determined to become the finest and swiftest bicycle telegraph messenger anyone has ever witnessed. His elder brother has enlisted in the war, leaving Homer with the responsibility of caring for his widowed mother, his older sister, and his four-year-old brother, Ulysses. As the seasons shift from spring to summer in 1942, Homer Macauley delivers messages filled with love, hope, sorrow, and even death to the kind-hearted people of Ithaca. Amidst these deliveries, Homer grapples with one message that will profoundly alter his life. Based on the 1943 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by William Saroyan, 'The Human Comedy,' ITHACA is a coming-of-age tale that explores the enthusiasm of youth, the abruptness of change, the sweetness of existence, the bitterness of loss, and the inherent goodness that resides within each and every one of us.