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to drive all of you from this house.

Come now. Come, little brave one,

and fight against half a man.

Jump again. my boy!

Jump, Telemachus, jump.

Go to your mother,

son of Ulysses.

Run, little boy.

Run home.

Run, Telemachus.

Run away.

One day your suitors will discover

that this tapestry never ends

only because you unravel at night

the weaving you do in the daytime.

What else can I do?

I was forced to promise

I would marry one of them.

We should thank the gods

that they agreed

to wait until the tapestry

is finished.

Let us hope they never

discover my secret.

- Mother.

- What is it, Telemachus?

What has happened?

- I must leave, Mother.

- Where do you want to go?

Away from here.

I can stand it no longer--

their insults and cruelties.

I must go to look for my father.

You wish to leave me also?

We must end this doubt, Mother.

We must be certain.

I shall go see the friends of Ulysses--

King Nestor of Pylos

and Menelaus in Sparta.

Do not leave me alone

with these people, Telemachus.

Do you believe

my father is alive?

Yes, Telemachus.

Tell me the truth, Mother.

You do not, do you?

You must not leave me.

Stay with me, my son.

Do not leave me.

If you go, what have I left?

Only your presence

and your voice

ever since you were a child

have filled my solitude.

In your face and in your eyes,

I have seen all the while

the face and eyes of Ulysses.

And I've found in you

the strength

which sometimes

seemed to abandon me.

Stay here with me,

Telemachus,

and we will fight together.

Don't leave me.

You must fight, Mother.

You must believe.

What does it matter

what I believe?

Ulysses is far off.

This alone we know to be true.

And that is why this tapestry

increases each day

and is undone each night.

And that is how I keep deceiving

these suitors who wait for me

while I wait for Ulysses.

Ulysses.

Nausicaa.

Nausicaa,

what are you doing?

Phaedra,

there's a dead man here.

- Where?

- Behind this rock.

Be careful, Nausicaa.

Do not touch him.

He's dead.

- He is alive.

- That's worse.

Where am I?

In the kingdom of Alcinous.

lam his daughter.

What part of the world is this?

The island of the Phaeacia.

Surely you know it.

It is very close to Ithaca.

Ithaca?

You've never heard

of Ithaca?

Who are you?

What is your name?

I don't know.

There's no name in my head.

You don't even know

the name of your country?

I remember nothing.

Hurry, girls. Hurry, please.

Send for Calops.

We must take him

to the palace at once.

Take care, Nausicaa.

He might be a god.

Sometimes the gods

take human form.

I hope he is not.

I want him to be a man.

As you know, Alcinous, I'm skilled

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