I'm Dreaming of a White Doomsday

"Season's greetings from the end of the world."

Director: Mike Lombardo Year: 2017 Runtime: 71 min IMDb: ⭐ 4.4
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A mother and her 8-year-old son struggle to survive in a bomb shelter after an unspecified apocalypse.

.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+span.mw-empty-elt+.hatnote,.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}The film is told in a partially non-linear narrative, and begins with the intertitle "In a time of apparent magic..." Ithaca has long since been without its king Odysseus, who disappeared following the Trojan War. Several suitors, including nobleman Antinous, aggressively court Odysseus's wife Penelope to claim the throne from Odysseus and Penelope's son Telemachus. Only Penelope, Telemachus, and half-blind servant Eumaeus still believe Odysseus will return. Telemachus plans to travel with his teacher and bodyguard, Odysseus's friend Mentor, to Menelaus, King of Sparta, to discover his father's whereabouts. Antinous learns this from his lover, Penelope's handmaid Melantho. He conspires with other suitors to kill Telemachus upon his return and plunder Ithaca. Menelaus and his wife Helen express uncertainty about Odysseus's fate but offer Telemachus stories about him. Rumors abound that the Greek civilization is in decline due to attacks by murderous "people from the sea" who do not abide by Zeus's law—the mutual respect between guests and hosts. After departing Ithaca, Odysseus and the Greeks land on the shores of Troy, plotting to breach its walls. After ten years, Odysseus masterminds a plan to hide inside a large wooden horse to sneak into Troy, with Sinon left behind to present the horse as a gift. Sinon is killed, but the deception succeeds; the Greeks open the gates for Menelaus's older brother, Agamemnon, to sack Troy and retrieve Helen. Agamemnon and Menelaus return home early, while Odysseus's army, including second-in-command Eurylochus, follow a slower route. When searching an island for supplies, they are trapped in a cave by a Cyclops, who feasts upon the soldiers in the following days. Eventually, they blind the Cyclops and escape, only to hear him cry out to Poseidon. Odysseus's crew deduces that the Cyclops is a son of Poseidon, and attribute the harsh sea conditions they face as a curse. They then land on Aeaea, where giant Laestrygonians kill most of their party. The survivors form a mutiny, leaving Odysseus with their ship as they seek refuge with the witch Circe, who turns them into pigs. After killing a deer transformed from a man, Odysseus persuades her to change his men back. Circe warns that to reach Ithaca, Odysseus must cross Oceanus into Hades. Odysseus meets the shade of Tiresias, who predicts that, by divine will, only Odysseus will return home: Odysseus defies this. Odysseus also encounters Sinon's shade, who reproaches Odysseus for using him as a pawn, and reveals Antinous's treachery; he was manipulated into taking Antinous's place in the Greek army. Lastly, Agamemnon's shade reveals that his wife Clytemnestra murdered him upon his return, as revenge for sacrificing their daughter, Iphigenia, to Artemis for fair seas. The ghosts of Odysseus's fallen army then chase the survivors from Hades. Following Tiresias's guidance, Odysseus, Eurylochus, and various crewmen survive encounters with Charybdis, Scylla, and the Sirens. On Thrinacia, Odysseus warns his men not to kill the cattle of the Sun God, as Tiresias foretold Odysseus's men would die from doing so. Despite this, the starving men slaughter the cattle. When they try to escape the island, Poseidon's storms sink the ship, killing all but Odysseus. He washes ashore on Ogygia, where the nymph Calypso, infatuated with him, drugs him with amnesia-inducing lotus flowers. Seven years later, Calypso feels pity for Odysseus's longing for his family, and aids him in remembering his past. She then instructs Odysseus to make a makeshift raft and give himself to the sea, facing Poseidon's punishment. He miraculously washes ashore in Ithaca, and learns from Eumaeus that suitors sent mercenaries posing as priests to assassinate Telemachus and Mentor at a temple. Mentor dies, but Odysseus rescues Telemachus and kills the assassins, calling himself "Sinon". Telemachus guides Odysseus to the palace. After Odysseus's old dog Argos recognizes him, Argos peacefully dies; Telemachus recognizes Odysseus as his father. During a tense feast, Odysseus shows Antinous he knows Antinous betrayed Sinon; Antinous thrashes Odysseus before Penelope intervenes. After the meal, still disguised, he confesses to Penelope his guilt for violating Zeus's law, killing innocent Trojans, and desecrating Athena's statue after killing her priestess: Athena had assumed the priestess's form to punish him in visions. He further reveals that the rumored attackers from the sea were the Greeks themselves, and begs Penelope's forgiveness. Penelope announces her readiness to remarry and instructs the suitors to come the following nigh…

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