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. Just before
2. Scene 1

   Black screen; a bard's voice intones "a face... a fleet" as the title fades to the sound of rising surf.

3. Scene 2

   The bard's chant continues over waves crashing on a foreign shore, some of the foam stained red, as he says "a war."

4. Scene 3

   Torchlit in a hall, the bard beats out "a man" on his staff to a rapt crowd.

5. Scene 4

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