In Homecoming, Anne Bancroft plays a feisty eccentric who lives on a run-down farm in Maryland. She has lost her husband and three children to death. This reclusive woman gets a second chance at love and nurturing when her daughter's four bedraggled children show up at her door.
After being abandoned by their mentally ill mother at a mall in Connecticut, they make their way to an aunt's house in Bridgeport. However, the aunt they thought could take them in has died and her daughter wants to split the four apart. The kids run away, believing they have one more chance of finding a home with the grandmother they have never met.
This heartwarming drama directed by Mark Jean shows how family ties can be formed and re-formed according to need and desire.