Odysseus sailed from Troy with twelve ships and nearly six hundred men. He came home with none of them. ODYSSEUS: The Fall retells Homer's epic as the fractured memory of a drowning man in his final minutes, a voyage that is really a trial, where every monster wears his own handwriting. Stripped of the word "clever," what remains is a man reckoning with what he actually did to get home. It ends where the songs never go: not with a hero's welcome, but with forgiveness offered by the one person who knows exactly what he is.

After many years, with help of Thetis and negotiations between Zeus and Hades, the Greek hero Achilles is released from the Underworld into the modern world.