Penelope waits, rules, grieves, schemes, suffers and dreams over the twenty years of Odysseus’s absence. The film contrasts the ancient landscape and sea of Greece with glimpses of contemporary domestic spaces, in images that are simultaneously ordinary and vivid, detailed and generic, precise and ambiguous. Structured in short year-segments anchored by quotes from The Odyssey, Penelope’s narrative is built from variations in composition, color, movement, sound and editing rhythms that signal her shifting emotions and perspectives. Finally, in the twentieth year of Penelope’s journey, Odysseus returns. As in the Homeric epic, it is now Odysseus who waits patiently, for Penelope.