The Odyssey - that's the one where the parent sets out on a journey with a bunch of people but then eventually returns home alone, telling their story several times along the way.
While they're gone intruders who turn murderous are kept at bay by the one son left at home?
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Macaulay Culkin's Home Alone Wave
Alt: Kevin from Home Alone looking out a window into the snow
