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. Scene 31

   Odysseus's captivity with Calypso opens the parallel strand — a man who has forgotten his own family, slowly remembering his way home.

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6. Scene 49

   Once clear of the cave, a furious Odysseus can't resist shooting a taunting arrow at the blinded Cyclops's eye before the men flee to the ship.

7. Scene 50

   The Cyclops chases the fleeing crew into the surf and hurls a boulder that flips several oarsmen off the ship.

8. Scene 51

   Aboard ship, a soldier reveals the Cyclops was Poseidon's son — explaining why the god now hunts them.

9. Scene 52

   This scene