After narrowly escaping the terrorist attacks on Lesvos, Captain Alexandros Savva and his wife Shayma flee to the far north of Scotland, to Orkney, to recoup and heal in the home of his brother Philip and sister-in-law, Larisa.
In this seemingly safe place there's every hope that Alexandros can process his harrowing memories from Sappho Square. But will the days spent prowling the rocky coast suck Alexandros deeper into depression?
Honour Thy Mother oscillates between terrors that haunt the living and present-day violence. Alexandros Savva, so often praised for his tenacity and humanity, is all to aware that he's run out of both while Larisa Savva struggles to save anyone she can in a world on the brink of cataclysmic change. (2 Feb. 2023)