This story opens up with Alcinous on the island of Phaeacia. Odysseus is washed up on the shore with leaves and gets picked up and saved by her. Odysseyeus confesses that he is Laerte's son and The King and all his people let him in to the feast.
Before Odysseus joins them the Alcinous court feeds him, gives him clothes, bathes him, and makes him look better. During he was in the feast there was a singer doing song requests and Odysseus requests the song of Troy.
The song talked about the battle of the Trojan War and the adventure. One of the men from the feast cried because it brought back memories from the war.
The King seemed suspicious of Odyssey and told him to show his true colors. So The he explains to the king about his ten year journey .