Modern Odysseus is a visionary creation by a young author – a movie in book form.
Told in blinding poetic prose, Modern Odysseus creates a Lynchian world of distrust and soul-death, satirising the slick excesses of the 21st century.
Corporate burn-out Thomas Dedal has made a mint on the killing fields of W55th street New York. But on the 16th of June, 2004, he is woken from his numbness by a reading of James Joyce’s Ulysses. Aided by a mysterious young man named Seb, Thomas decides to record the imagined and real events of the day in a journal, sketching out the shape of his spoiled soul. Thomas knows he has slowly murdered his imagination, and must bring it back to life by writing a perfect fable for his time.
Modern Odysseus features esteemed Australian actor Colin Friels in the lead role of Thomas.