In the cellar of a house in a Greek village, an old woman whispers to herself as she weaves on her loom. On the other side of the world, her grandson tries to understand his life as he unravels the family stories passed down to him. He grows up in Australia, with memories that don’t make sense, and journeys back to Greece to visit his family, and to seek out whether the memories reside there in this village where he spent some time as a child.

Along the way, he learns about the politics of life in a dying Greek village, including encounters with an old woman who can put a curse on him, a young cousin who urges him to leave to the big city as he has, a bitter and jealous uncle who refuses to speak to him, and an old man who remembers better days when the village was full of life.

He also discovers the darkness of his family’s history, revealed by past and present family members and ultimately is forced to confront his concept of what home means and where he actually belongs. Although he will always experience a ‘foreignness’ in both lands and the pain of being away from either one, he understands that within this dilemma there is the capacity to exist contently. He makes peace with his past, embraces who he is and knows that, although he will always leave people behind wherever he goes, he will always carry ‘home’ in his heart.