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The storyline to "Homesick" is simplistic and focuses largely on the locations featured throughout the video, showing striking visuals of beautiful scenery mixed with a storyline of a broken down couple going through dramatic changes that Nadia Berry and Ryan Williams play. The pair display the emotions involved in an intense relationship, where they're no longer together, but still hold strong feelings for one another and crave for how things used to be. Despite what's changed between them, they fight through every obstacle to attempt to be together once more, memories of their past motivating them to try again. Although the video follows a simple story to match the lyrics, the video has a dramatic, movie-like feel to it, taking the viewer on an ride full of ups and downs, before it rounds things off with a final emotional scene.

The video opens with a beautiful opening shot in the woods, it's sunset and just a small amount of light manages to break in slightly through the trees. The camera pans to Nadia Berry and Ryan Williams sat by a fire, she's seen sat on his lap whilst wearing an oversized sweater and shorts, with him in a similar sweater with jeans on. Her head rests against his shoulder, nothing heard but the burning fire and the sound of crickets and birds chirping. Instead of the song itself playing, Nadia begins to sing the first verse to "Homesick" a cappella, her voice an almost whisper as she softly sings.

"Oh, we're only getting older
A winter night like this only grows colder
And I've got a hunger for your warmth
Only your arms could pull me out of the storm
Every rose may have its thorns
But if you defy all laws then I'll let down my walls
Pull me inside and we can watch the rain pour"

We see a special effect on screen that suddenly makes a rip right through the middle of the footage and the studio version of the song begins to play, starting straight at the pre-chorus. This time, we see Berry and Williams in split-screen, both in different locations. Nadia's seen in the evening, driving down a long, deserted road with fields either side of her. A close-up shows her teary eyed while she sings the pre-chorus, a tear managing to escape from her eye as it rolls down her cheek while she drives. Ryan on the other hand, is seen sat in a dimly lit, messy bedroom, smoking a cigarette before putting it out on a bedside table. He removes his shirt and lays back onto the bed, looking vacant, a glimpse of sadness in his eyes.

"Hurt a little too much, hurt a little too much
And I closed my eyes longing for your touch
Cried a little too hard, cried a little too hard
And I longed for you to stop this aching in my heart"

As the chorus is heard for the first time, we see it's now raining where Nadia is as she suddenly stops the car and wipes her tears, her scene taking up the full screen now. She steps out of the car and into the rain, seen in a plaid shirt with leggings and boots. She runs her hands through her wet hair and looks off into the distance in the opposite direction she's been driving in, looking unsure whether she's making the right decision or not to move on from the relationship. She pulls her phone out as we see the screen instantly become covered in raindrops, her finger hovering over Ryan's name. Backing out, she quickly returns to the home screen of her phone and makes her way back into the car.

"Suitcase down a path and an open road
I took a turn to where nobody knows
A gypsy soul looking for its destination
One body and a mind in two different locations
I built a fantasy brick by brick
Blocked out the world and took the risk
Now I'm walking forward to fill in the blanks
With a homesick heart that keeps pulling me back
Back, back, back down that same old track"

Still contemplating her decision, Nadia looks back through her phone through old pictures, one of them shows her and Ryan kissing, before the picture suddenly comes to life in video form on screen. Nadia and Ryan kiss in the corner of a room, the camera zooms out from them slowly to show they're in a crowded, trashed living room of a lively party, others in the room seen passed out on the floor, drinking alcohol and taking drugs. It's an effective scene that suggests that their love is wild and reckless, and despite the obvious chemistry between them, they're no good for one another. The camera starts to turn away from them until they're off screen, circling around the room, and when it comes back to its original position, everyone is gone but Ryan, who sits miserably on a sofa in the middle of the room, still a mess from the party.

"Maybe we could reminisce, I'll put my head on your chest
You tell me to go and put my worries to rest
Candlelight's dancing to the sound of us laughing
By the fire, quickly burning away all the time passing
Suddenly we're replicating those old photographs
And the fences I always build come down crashing

Hurt a little too much, hurt a little too much
And I closed my eyes longing for your touch
Cried a little too hard, cried a little too hard
And I longed for you to stop this aching in my heart"

In a sudden change of heart, Nadia throws her phone to the side, landing on the empty passenger seat, as she turns the car around swiftly and drives back in the direction she just came from. A camera watches the car from a distance, the rain pouring heavier now as Nadia drives notably faster than before. This cuts to the scene we saw earlier of Ryan in the bedroom, he rubs his bloodshot eyes and turns to look at a cracked photo frame on the bedside table, the picture showing him and Nadia smiling.

"Suitcase down a path and an open road
I took a turn to where nobody knows
A gypsy soul looking for its destination
One body and a mind in two different locations
I built a fantasy brick by brick
Blocked out the world and took the risk
Now I'm walking forward to fill in the blanks
With a homesick heart that keeps pulling me back
Back, back, back down that same old track"

We hear Ryan sing for the first time in the song as his verse follows the chorus, he quickly sits up and puts his shirt back on, grabbing a leather jacket in the corner of the room and placing it on. He runs out of the room, down the stairs and out the house, getting into his own car and speeding off as we assume he's chasing after Nadia. The video goes back into split-screen again, a close-up shown of both of them driving towards each other, Ryan oblivious to the fact that Nadia's already on her way back to him to try and mend their relationship. Her own verse follows Ryan's as we see her lipsyncing to it while in the car, both of them looking upset and worn out.

"Shadows keep whispering to me softly
Keep changing what they're saying to me
A lonely corridor leads the way
My back to the wall, I want to hear you say;
The sweet things you talked about in the night
The stupid things that always led to a fight
Honey, I need you, I hate this place
Honey, I need you, need to see your face

So if you wanna get lost, come and get lost with me
Cause darling, it ain't such a crime to fall in love with me
We pulled each other out of the dark to our better days
If you can feel yourself falling, no need to push me away
We can mend these homesick hearts, oh, whatever the cost
But a love without you is nothing but a love that's lost"

For the final chorus which both of them sing together, the viewer is presented with an emotional end to the video. Nadia notices Ryan's car on the road next to her as she squints a little, visibly confused, he presents a similar reaction and both of them stop their cars in a hurry in the middle of the road. The video now returns back to just one screen, as Nadia breaks down into tears and opens her car door which Ryan does at the same time. She steps out and the pair stand looking at each other for a few seconds, in almost disbelief, before she runs into his arms. He pulls her up onto his car bonnet and pulls his leather jacket over her, before the pair end the video with an intense kiss in the rain, the chorus ends and the sound of thunder closes the video out.