Time is an arrow. It slays one-eyed giants, piercing Siren song, taming wild Aeolian winds, flying past disenchanted sea nymphs, and evading the grasp of Poseidon's sapphire fist.
Odysseus' voyage home from Troy is the quintessential human journey. But Ithaca embarks on an odyssey of its own, changing from day to day, from year to year. Odysseus remains a prisoner on Calypso's island, but someone has been watching him all along, someone who has told his tale a thousand times. The god of a thousand faces takes Odysseus' place in order to ensure that the king will one day recognize the Ithaca he once knew and loved.