The play concerns the attempts of four men seeking to win over Penelope in the absence of her warrior husband, Odysseus, who has been away for the previous twenty years fighting the Trojan wars.
The six playwrights were Grzegorz Jarzyna [de; pl; sv], Péter Nádas, Emine Sevgi Özdamar, Christoph Ransmayr, Roland Schimmelpfennig and Enda Walsh.
Quinn costumes himself as male and female lovers of exceptional note, such as Napoleon and Josephine and Rhett Butler and Scarlett O'Hara, but when he strips down to his toga, as Eros, the Greek god of love, he is stabbed by Burns.
Burns makes a final address to Penelope in which he argues for their collective redemption through love and human affection.
As their dream predicted, it begins from its legs and quickly spreads to the rest of the frame and grill" thus signaling the deaths of the men as above them Penelope withdraws from the stage "and into her new future".