Youth (spring)

Spiros retires as a schoolteacher, his daughter is married, and he starts his annual journey with his bees to get honey from different areas. In his truck he finds a young girl who has just been abandoned and has no roots. Spiros lets her follow for a day. Seeing her difficulty in getting further hitch-hiking, he takes her back. They will meet and part several times. Later she will say that Spiros is the only one who has ever been kind to her.

Fourteen-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 - Un adattamento del romanzo "The Human Comedy" di William Saroyan, ambientato in una piccola cittadina della San Joaquin Valley in California, Ithaca, nel 1942. Il quattordicenne Homer Macauley è determinato a diventare il migliore e il più veloce messaggero del telegrafo in bicicletta che nessuno abbia mai visto. Suo fratello maggiore è andato in guerra, lasciando a Homer il compito di accudire la madre vedova, la sorella maggiore e il fratellino di 4 anni.