From Scratch Ending Explained: The Sad True Story Behind The Netflix Series
From Scratch, by its original title, has managed to position itself as one of the most important releases of last month and of this one, which is just beginning. Its theme, which could be confused with just another romantic series, little by little is transformed into a more real and more complex narrative about what love is over the years. Starting with one that seems like a fairy tale, the series mutates towards reality as time goes by, something that we undoubtedly see little in movies or series and that is more related to what we experience every day as a couple.
And, precisely, the more we go into the series, the more we are amazed by his ability to understand the reality of living as a couple; something that, from previous articles, made us compare From Scratch with series like Modern Love. Now, after its premiere and in the full marathon, it makes us revisit again and again the true story that inspired the series, to, with a handkerchief in hand, alternate the fiction starring Zoe Saldaña and Eugene Mastrandrea with what, in real life, was the story of a relationship where love is not the only thing that stands out. And here we try to exalt the story outside of fiction and its arrival on the screens as something that streaming needed: more believable stories about true love.
Before We Start, What is Starting From Zero About?
From Scratch tells the story of Amy Wheeler and Lino, a cross-cultural love story that begins with the young American visiting Italy on a school trip, where she meets and falls in love with Lino, a Sicilian chef. After the small and romantic flash, which seems more like summer love, the relationship between Amy and Lino begins to formalize, always with the constant cultural barrier between them. Where to live, where to settle down and where to form a family, begin to be the problems that the couple must face, in addition to the family problems that arise from marriage with people of different origins.
However, after overcoming what seemed like all kinds of difficulties, Lino’s health problems seem to show, once again, an uncertain outlook for the young couple. What will make both families, despite their differences, come together to show that in love, there are no borders?
From Scratch is a True Story?
From the title, we gave ourselves away. But before we get into the details, we should note that the answer is in two parts: yes and no. No, because From Scratch is based on Tembi Locke‘s novel, From Scratch: A Memoir of Love, Sicily and Finding Home. And yes, because despite the narrative resources used by Hollywood and by the writer herself to make the story more (even) dramatic, her novel has autobiographical overtones where she highlights her relationship with her husband De Ella Saro Gullo. In conclusion, it is based on a novel that is also based on the true story of its author.
From Scratch Ending Explained
It is clear that From scratch is one of those series that hooks you, hooks you to ‘make you cry’. Whether it’s because of its romantic theme or what happens later with the couple (with Lino’s health problems), the Netflix series is one of those where you can’t have a box of tissues next to you. Between wiping away our tears, now knowing the ending, here we review the most important thing Amy did after Lino’s departure, did Amy keep Lino’s promise?
Before starting with the last chapter and its ending, let’s recap. Throughout the season we have gone from falling in love in Italy to work problems in Los Angeles, family problems with Lino’s father marrying an American and his strong commitment to a new Italian restaurant in the United States. However, the climax of the series, which goes through all that we have quickly covered, is when Lino finds out, after an accident at work, that he has cancer. From there, we see how Amy and Lino manage both in their work and in their daily lives to get ahead and we see how, after reuniting with his parents and taking a trial medication, Lino manages to overcome the disease.
After overcoming cancer, Amy and Lino seek to formalize their family and have children. Due to their circumstances, they adopt a baby and from there the time jumps begin where we see different stages of the couple now as parents. Stages where Amy is torn between working because Lino is not fully recovered yet, and being a mother and spending time with her daughter. As we watch her daughter grow up on the screen, we also see Lino’s cancer return.
After losing his father, whom we saw reconcile in the United States, Lino begins to have the repercussions of his illness, one that little by little is reducing his daily life until he is taken to the hospital. The same place where they tell him, after several moments of tension and with an outstanding performance by Zoe Saldaña, that there is no remedy, cure or treatment for the illness that afflicts Lino, so he decides to spend his last days at home. Reunited with her family, Amy sees, along with her sister and her parents, the last glimpses of Lino, who, before dying, asks Zora (Danielle Deadwyler) to take care of Amy and her daughter, while Amy, he asks her to take his ashes to Italy.
After Lino’s death, Amy falls into a deep depression, but it is on her trip to Italy that she manages to find some peace. With scenes where she remembers him at every moment and returns to her first kiss in the rain in Florence, and after her mother-in-law, Filomena (Lucia Sardo), leaves her land in Italy, she decides to stay in the Mediterranean country for He raises his daughter there as a promise of what Lino himself would have wanted for them. Thus finding, in Italy, the land of her husband, peace and tranquillity about the love that she lived with Lino.
Lino’s Death in Real Life
We know very well that From Scratch goes from reality to fiction. In a narrative that wanders between one and the other, those of us who have been left with tears on our faces, have run to any search engine to familiarize ourselves a little more with this inspiring and impressive romantic story; wondering what is real and what is not from Desde cero? Without a doubt, one of the things that we have found the most is, in short, how Lino’s death occurs in real life. To answer that, we must once again review everything from the beginning.
Tembi Locke, author of the novel, producer of the series and character who calls herself Amy in the series, married Saro Gullo (Lino) in 1995. After developing all the history that we already know, in 2002 Saro was diagnosed with leiomyosarcoma, a type of soft tissue cancer, seeing his dream of being a professional chef frustrated, while Tembi also put her acting career on hold. After a strong battle against cancer and receiving treatment for several years, the Italian died in 2012, of a disease that spread to other organs. And, as the series dictates, Ella Tembi travelled to Sicily to fulfil the last wish of her husband De Ella.
