The Homecoming, a work written around the middle of Pinter's creative period, is far less a work about nostalgia, fate, injustice, temptation, aging, or infidelity, and much more a call for solidarity.

An attempt by four people to communicate, to find support in one another, in order to continue their endless wandering in this invincible dead zone where "... nothing moves... nothing changes... nothing ages... it remains... forever... frozen... silent."

And this very need, as well as the characters' simultaneous difficulty in finding support, is intricately described by Pinter with a text that stubbornly refuses to offer them an escape into action from the current situation, but insists on keeping them trapped in endless cycles of memories, dreams, promises, and expectations from the beginning to the end.