THE RETURN

(Η Επιστροφή)

After twenty years away Odysseus (Ralph Fiennes) washes up on the shores of Ithaca, haggard and unrecognisable. The king has finally returned home but much has changed in his kingdom since he left to fight in the Trojan War. His beloved wife Penelope (Juliette Binoche) is now a prisoner in her own home, hounded by her many ambitious suitors to choose a new husband, a new king. Their son Telemachus (Charles Plummer), who has grown up fatherless, is in danger of death at the hands of the suitors, who see him as an obstacle in their relentless pursuit of Penelope and the kingdom. Odysseus has changed too. Scarred by his experience of war, he is no longer the mighty warrior his people remember. But he is forced to face his past in order to rediscover the strength needed to save his family and win back the love he has lost.

Αφού έλειψε για 20 χρόνια, ο Οδυσσέας ναυαγεί στις ακτές της Ιθάκης, καταπονημένος και αγνώριστος. Πολλά έχουν αλλάξει στο βασίλειό του. Η αγαπημένη του σύζυγος, Πηνελόπη, είναι αιχμάλωτη στο ίδιο της το σπίτι, πιεσμένη από τους φιλόδοξους μνηστήρες της να επιλέξει νέο σύζυγο, νέο βασιλιά. Ο Οδυσσέας έχει αλλάξει κι αυτός. Πώς θα βρει τη δύναμη να σώσει την οικογένειά του;