What is home? While of universal significance, this question presents a multi-layered challenge for refugees. The violent dislodging of persons from their established moorings brings to light dynamics that are obscured in more settled circumstances. Syria is an especially illustrative case due to the staggering scope of displacement of millions of people, as well as the unparalleled variety of experiences that they are having in nearly every country across the globe. This paper explores their experiences of losing home, searching for home, finding home, or not finding home paper based on 450 original interviews conducted since 2012 with displaced Syrians now residing on five continents. It interprets these narratives as showing how home, like identity itself, is not something that we have, but something that we live. It is not an entity to be possessed, but a process, practice, and problem to be resolved continually throughout one’s life. Syrians’ narratives also point to the role of story-telling in the process of home-making. If home is where we can express ourselves, than home is crucially located in the ways that we give expression to our lives. Home is the story we tell about how we became the people we are and who we still seek to become. In this way, story-telling does more than simply provide a window into the meaning of home. It is itself a process of searching for home and can even be a way of finding it.