Telemachus’s father, Odysseus, went off to war before he was born. Aged sixteen, Telemachus finds himself abandoned, his father’s house overrun with men pursuing his mother Penelope and devouring the family’s wealth. He determines to leave Ithaca and find the truth. What really happened to his father? Might he, one day, return to take his revenge? Telemachus's journey takes him across the landscape of bronze-age Greece in the aftermath of the great Trojan War. ITHACA re-tells Homer’s famous poem from the point of view of Odysseus’ resourceful and troubled son, describing Odysseus’s extraordinary voyage from Troy to the gates of hell, and Telemachus’s own journey from boyhood to the desperate struggle that wins back his home…and his father.