For ten years, Odysseus, king of Ithaca, has been wandering the seas. He has confronted the Cyclops, resisted the song of the Sirens, thwarted the traps of Circe and Calypso... But Ulysses "of a thousand tricks" never admits defeat. And it is disguised as a beggar that he returns to his kingdom to get rid of the suitors who seek to take his throne from him.