Cyprus, at the crossroads of late Bronze Age culture, suffered a series of devastating attacks. As Odysseus makes his way back to Ithaca, he encounters rumors that these mysterious marauders have put everyone up and down the coast on alert. At a key moment in the film, Odysseus comes to a startling realization. “The people from the sea are essentially these marauders who some believe brought about the collapse of civilization, but nobody knows their lost history,” Nolan told Vulture. They have identified the dangerous marauders as terrorists of one stripe or another: Hamas, Hezbollah, Venezuelans on boats, Iranian mullahs, Ukrainian Nazis.