After the death of his wife, Mario Peppino decides to leave his Rhode Island home and return to his childhood town of Villa San Giuseppe, Abruzzo. Back in Italy, his childhood friend and fellow cyclist Luca offers him the vacant apartment over the family-run candy factory. It is there that he encounters Lucrezia, whose temper and workaholic schedule hide the pain she feels after her husband’s death years before. Home to Italy traces the romance that develops between the two and love’s power to heal life’s wounds and promise a second chance.