20年后，奥德修斯（拉尔夫·费因斯 饰）被冲上伊萨卡海岸，憔悴不堪，面目全非。国王终于回家了，但自从他参加特洛伊战争离开家园以来，他的王国发生了很大变化。 他心爱的妻子佩内洛普（朱丽叶·比诺什 饰）现在是家中的囚犯，被许多雄心勃勃的追求者追逐，以选择新丈夫、新国王。他们的儿子忒勒马科斯长大后失去了父亲，在母亲的追求者手中面临死亡，他们认为他是他们追求佩内洛普和王位的障碍。

Kala azar describes of a place that cannot sustain animal life any longer. In a big city somewhere in the south of Europe, a couple takes care of dead animals and abandoned roadkill as an act to give meaning to their life. Kala azar is a  meditation on the paradox of life-circles among beings of different species. A film about existence, on the boundaries between living and dead, human and non-human.