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. Scene 1

   Black screen, a bard's chant — "a time of apparent magic" — sets the tone of myth about to be tested by memory.

2. Just before
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

   A lone figure broods on a shore as the bard's voice supplies "a thought."

6. Scene 5

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