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Odysseus returns alone. But in a feminist-surrealist retelling, rescue is communal. In the imagined final scene of Fidelio: Alice’s Odyssey , the protagonist does not return to a throne. She returns to a tea party, where the Mad Hatter, the prison's political prisoners, and a chorus of Leonores all sing Beethoven’s "Ode to Joy" while the Queen of Hearts’ cards swirl into a spiral of playing-card butterflies. Fidelio- Alice-s Odyssey

The story centers on (played by Ariane Labed), a skilled engineer who joins the crew of an aging freighter, the Fidélio , as a second mechanic. Her arrival is marked by two significant discoveries: (Breaking the loop) Odysseus returns alone

The premise of the film is deceptively simple. Alice (Ariane Labed) is a thirty-year-old woman who works as a mechanic on freighters. She is competent, solitary, and deeply in love with the machinery she tends. When the film opens, she is about to board the Fidelio , a cargo ship bound for an uncertain journey. She returns to a tea party, where the

Alice leaves her loving fiancé (Felix) to work as a marine mechanic on an old freighter (the