Twenty years after leaving for the Trojan War, Odysseus fights his way home across a hostile sea only to find his kingdom overrun — and must return in disguise to reclaim his wife, his son, and his throne from the suitors laying siege to his house.

1. Scenes 1–9

   Ithaca frozen in a decade of waiting: Penelope weaving, the suitors feasting, Telemachus unheard.

2. Scenes 9–27

   Telemachus needs proof of his father's fate; Penelope needs the throne secured before the suitors force her hand.

3. Scenes 28–29

   Telemachus sails from Ithaca in secret, crossing into the unfamiliar world beyond his mother's house.

4. Scenes 30–144

   Odysseus's remembered ordeal — Troy, the Cyclops, Circe, Hades, Charybdis — paid for in men, ships, and years, while Telemachus searches the courts of Sparta.

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6. Scene 142

   Flashback: Odysseus lies half-dead amid wreckage on Calypso's beach as she watches over him.

7. Scene 143

   Flashback: Calypso nurses the unconscious Odysseus back to health with lotus, and falls in love with him as she cares for him.

8. Scene 144

   In the present, Odysseus presses Calypso on how many years he's actually been kept with her.

9. Scene 145

   This scene