Ten years after the Trojan war, Odysseus has not yet returned to his home in Ithaca, where suitors try to lure his wife Penelope from him and squander the inheritance his son, Telemachus. Odysseus’s arduous journey, complicated by the conflicting designs of the gods’ and the interference of monstrous, mythological figures, is a meditation on mortality, hospitality, and the power of stories that has become the model for countless narratives about people in search of home.