A meditation on civilization. July, 2001: friends wave as a cruise ship departs Lisbon for Mediterranean ports and the Indian Ocean. On board and on day trips in Marseilles, Pompeii, Athens, Istanbul, and Cairo, a professor tells her young daughter about myth, history, religion, and wars. Men approach her; she's cool, on her way to her husband in Bombay. After Cairo, for two evenings divided by a stop in Aden, the captain charms three successful, famous (and childless) women, who talk with wit and intellect, each understanding the others' native tongue, a European union. The captain asks mother and child to join them. He gives the girl a gift. Helena sings. Life can be sweet.

Living in exile after the death of their father, the grown children of a murdered and usurped king converge to exact eye-for-an-eye revenge.

美女海伦引起了人神混战的特罗伊战争，长达十年的时间里，无数英雄和战士倒在特洛伊的土地上。最终，这场旷日持久的战争以奥德赛（Armand Assante 饰）想出的木马计而结束，战争胜利后，希腊英雄们纷纷归国。因决定性的战功而沾沾自喜的奥德赛对着大海夸下海口，却因此惹恼海 神波塞冬，对其施下无法回家的诅咒。固执的奥德赛执意启程，途中杀死波塞冬儿子独眼巨人，导致遭遇风暴，船员悉数遇难。此后又先后遇到女神克莉索（Bernadette Peters 饰）和孤岛仙女的纠缠，一晃十数年匆匆而过。
另一方面，奥德赛的妻子含辛茹苦抚养儿子长大，远近权贵得知奥德赛遇难身亡，纷纷赶来愈强娶奥德赛的妻子。忠贞的女人誓死等待英雄丈夫的归来……
本片根据荷马所著的史诗《奥德修记》改编，并荣获1997年艾美奖最佳迷你剧集导演和最佳特效两项殊荣。

In Thebes in ancient Greece, King Oedipus kills his father and marries his mother Jocasta, having two sons - Eteocles and Polyneices - and two daughters - Ismene and Antigone. King Oedipus dies a beggar in the exile after gouging out his own eye, and Eteocle agrees to reign in Thebes in alternating years with Polynices. However, he refuses to resign after the first year and Polynieces raises an army and attacks Thebes, and they kill each other. The ruler of Thebes Creon decrees that Eleocles should have an honorable burial while the body of the traitor Polyneices should be left on the battlefield to be eaten by the jackals and vultures. However, Antigone, who was betrothed to Creon's surviving son Haemon, defies Creon's orders and buries her brother. When Creon is reported of the attitude of Antigone, he sentences her to be placed in a tomb alive. Antigone hangs herself in the tomb and Haemon tries to kill his father first and then he kills himself with his sword...

A reporter and a promiscuous young woman try to solve a series of child killings in a remote southern Italian town rife with superstition and a distrust of outsiders.

1969 film by Costa-Gavras