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.

5. Just before
6. Scene 59

   Odysseus rations water inside the horse as Menelaus narrates how he kept the men calm.

7. Scene 60

   A Trojan soldier stabs blindly into the horse's planking as it's dragged through the gates.

8. Scene 61

   Inside, a warrior is wounded by the probing blade; Odysseus silently muffles his cries and wipes the blade clean to avoid detection.

9. Scene 62

   This scene