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 75

   Back in Menelaus's hall, Telemachus is moved to tears by the firsthand account of his father's role at Troy; Helen confirms it was Odysseus.

7. Scene 76

   In Calypso's cave, Odysseus continues remembering, now recalling the storms that scattered his ships.

8. Scene 77

   At sea, Odysseus's crew battles a punishing headwind and loses a man overboard.

9. Scene 78

   This scene