In a tiny town in California's San Joaquin Valley, Homer Macauley that was 14-year-old is regarded as the fastest and best bicycle telegraph messenger anyone has seen. His brother has gone to war, leaving Homer to appear after his mother, his sister and his former brother. So it is that as spring turns to summer, 1942,'' Homer Macauley delivers messages of romance, hope, pain... and death... to the fantastic people of Ithaca. And Homer Macauley will grapple with just one particular message that could change him - into a person. Founded on Pulitzer Prize Winning author William Saroyan's 1943 novel, The Human Comedy, ITHACA is your strangest wartime tale of Your Homefront. It's a coming of age story regarding the exuberance of youth, the sweetness of life, the sting of death and the modesty and absolute goodness that lives in each and every one of the people.