This chapter examines Mario Martone’s Nostalgia (2022) as a meditation on memory, return, and the ambivalence of belonging. Centring on a man’s homecoming to Naples after decades abroad, the film stages nostalgia as both an intimate attachment to place and a confrontation with unresolved personal and social histories. The analysis underscores how Naples functions not simply as a backdrop but as a layered site of memory, where past conflicts and present realities collide. Martone’s aesthetic strategies—including shifts in colour palette and aspect ratio, and the rendering of the city as both familiar and estranging—visualise the tension between restorative and reflective nostalgia. The chapter demonstrates how the film highlights the double-edged nature of longing: nostalgia can serve as a resource of continuity and meaning, but equally as a burden that traps individuals in cycles of repetition and loss. By attending to these tensions, the chapter shows how Nostalgia expands the cinematic exploration of displacement and identity in contemporary Europe, offering a nuanced portrayal of how the past continues to shape both personal subjectivities and collective imaginaries.