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 85

   At dawn, the crew's exhausted men effectively mutiny, insisting Odysseus stay behind while they scout ahead alone.

7. Scene 86

   Odysseus creeps through the grass with his bow, listening for his men.

8. Scene 87

   Eurylochus's landing party finds a stone house tended by strangely tame wild predators and approaches cautiously.

9. Scene 88

   This scene