Two people from opposite sides of the Atlantic build a life together across years and continents in From Scratch, a 2022 romantic drama that follows love as it collides with family, culture, and distance.
What is From Scratch about?
An American woman studying abroad in Italy meets a Sicilian man, and what starts as a chance connection during her time overseas grows into a relationship that neither of them planned to carry home. The series traces the arc of that relationship well beyond the initial romance, following the couple as they navigate two families, two languages, and the practical difficulty of building a shared future when their roots pull in different directions. Rather than staying inside the glow of a travel romance, the show follows its leads through the harder stretches that come after the honeymoon period ends: cultural friction, career decisions, and the compromises long-distance love eventually demands of everyone involved. The result is a character study as much as a love story, one that treats its Italian and American settings as more than scenery.
About the cast
Zoe Saldaña and Eugenio Mastrandrea lead the series as the central couple, with Danielle Deadwyler, Judith Scott, Kellita Smith, Roberta Riganò, Keith David, and Paride Benassai filling out the extended family circles on both sides of the relationship. Nzingha Stewart directs, shaping a story that moves fluidly between Italy and the United States.
Context & significance
From Scratch is an American production set partly in Italy, and its bilingual, bicultural framing places it among a wave of recent television that treats cross-border romance as a lens for exploring family and identity rather than a simple backdrop for a love story. The show's structure, spanning years of a relationship rather than a single season of will-they-won't-they tension, gives it a different rhythm from a conventional romantic drama.
Watching From Scratch on Ktime
From Scratch is available on K-Time with a free account login, no payment required to start watching. The series streams with both Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, giving Farsi-speaking viewers a choice in how they experience the show as part of K-Time's Persian-language streaming service for the diaspora.