Telemachus is seen as a threat to the suitors, as he is Odysseus' heir, so they're plotting to kill him. The suitors are boning all the maids, and forcing Penelope to choose one of them to marry ...

Penelope’s suitors, in particular, are dressed in gaudy fur coats, colorful beanies, headbands, and sunglasses in jarring “frat-bro” caricatures.

The film adapts the later chapters of the protagonist where he returns to his home of Ithaca only to find it invaded by suitors trying to compete for the hand of Penelope. Ralph Fiennes in The Return.

Penelope spends most of the 24 books of Homer’s “Odyssey ... caring for her son Telemachus, fending off hundreds of suitors, and weaving an intricate tapestry. She’s loyal, dutiful, ...