Based on Homer's 'Odyssey,' the movie, O Brother Where Art Thou, deals with the picaresque adventures of Everett Ulysses McGill and his companions Delmar and Pete in 1930s, Mississippi. ... Among them are the Sirens, a Cyclops, bank robber George 'Baby face' Nelson, a campaigning Governor, his opponent, a Ku Klux Klan lynch mob, and a blind prophet, who warns the trio that treasure they seek shall not be the treasure they find, and foretells a few events, such as the "cow atop a hen house". ...

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