After the terrorist attacks on Lesvos, Captain Alexandros Savva and his wife Shayma flee 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 begin to process his harrowing memories.

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.