The completely plundered Greece is on the control of the suitors. Odysseus is missing and Telemachos, his young son who is still in wintery war-ridden Athens is asking himself the sempiternal and jet highly relevant question: should I stay or should I go? Waiting for a hero returning home? Or should I leave as well, in the tradition of the ancestors?

The young German-Greek directors invited a couple of protagonists from different generations. All of them live their life’s back and forth between Greece and Germany and answer the question of „should I stay or should I go“ again and again for themselves. Their life stories and reports about emigration, immigration and remigration are linked with cantos of the odyssey and adventures of Odysseus.

Former guests and so called guest workers, crisis-ridden Athenians of today, actors and experts discuss together on stage ‒ with Prodromos Tsinikoris as Telemachos ‒ the conditions of our Europe. They are going to tell stories of their own very personal odyssey ‒ about encounters with guest eating Cyclopes and the sea monster Skylla and Charybdis, about experiences with loss, fraud, guilt, unemployment and self-denial. This is how Telemachos and his travel-experienced fellows ‒ in the current discussion about the crisis ‒ shake up the self- and public images.

„When we go to Greece they say the Germanos is coming. The German is there. Excuse me. Well, in Germany we are foreign, in Greece we are foreign. Where are we not foreign? In Turkey maybe?“ (Christos)

In German and Greek language with surtitles.