Odysseus is still alive, he has reinvented himself as an influencer and fills social media with his old macho stories. He is recording a video in front of an abandoned building when he is interrupted by the siren Leucosia, who takes over his mobile phone and narration. Odysseus flees into the palace, Leucosia pursues him and there he finds the women of the Odyssey: Nausicaa, Circe and Calypso, whose accounts she films, recording a very different version of the story. While Ulysses gets a scolding from his mother in Hades, the women eventually gather around Penelope, whose final video message seals a completely rewritten myth.

The short film develops from the poems of The Odyssey in Six Sonnets by Barbara Hamby, whose protagonists, with black and irreverent humour, expose the lies of the hero. Roberta Cortese sets the story in an abandoned palace, occupied by women united by centuries of resistance to the patriarchal rhetoric of the Odyssey, and whose rooms evoke their islands. The narrative, strongly characterised by the siren's subjective shots and supported by a strong sound component, follows the path of the siren, who, by collecting her ‘’truth-telling interviews‘’, gradually reveals the women's independence from the man/Ulysses.

Director
Roberta Cortese
Story
Roberta Cortese da "The Odyssey in Six Sonnets", di Barbara Hamby
Screenplay
Roberta Cortese
Director of photography
Film Editor
Carlo Cagnasso
Set Design
Roberta Cortese, Cristina Ugo
Costume Design
Alessandra Berardi, Roberta Cortese
Original Music
Giorgio Ferrero, Rodolfo Mongitore
Sound
Nadir Naji; Marco Marassciuolo (presa diretta)
Operator
Mattero Moretti (assistente)
Make-up
Silvia Galeazzo (trucco)
Altri credits

Luigi Chiarella (Script Consultant); Arianna Grasso (grafica titoli);  Margot Mecca (responsabile sviluppo); Alessandro Rapisarda (Runner)

Cast and characters

Sara D'Amario, Gianluca Gambino, Irene Vivaldi, Olivia Manescalchi, Simona Nasi, Viola Sartoretto, Francesca Vettori

Organizzatore generale
Executive production
Giorgio Ferrero, Margot Mecca
Producer
Federico Biasin, Giorgio Ferrero, Rodolfo Mongitore, Marco Quartana e Roberta Cortese
Production
Mybosswas, Satyrikon
con il sostegno di Film Commission Torino Piemonte - Short Film Fund - dicembre 2021; Media Creative Europe Slate 2022 (EU); BMKÖS 2022 (AT); Ministero della Cultura 2023; Stadt Wien Kultur 2024 (Austria)
Last update: 21 January 2025