A reworking of the myth of Odysseus' return, Angelopoulos's sixth feature centres upon a former resistance fighter whose return from exile after thirty two years disrupts the lives of his family and fellow villagers.

The first part of his acclaimed trilogy of silence, and a key transition point from the collective histories that preceded it and the profoundly personal films that would follow, Voyage to Cythera is a profoundly moving examination of the ways in which we attempt to come to terms with the past.