On this singular journey, she loses everything: Her husband, son, grandchildren, job, friends, family, home and her social and financial standing. How quickly everyone denounces her and accuses her of desecrating her own son’s memory, but she is not deterred, not even when she finds the one true love of her life that is so deep and terrifying to her that she has to turn it away before it destroys her mission to rehabilitate Smith, and to bring her son home.

Of All Things We Need Hope is a story of hope, forgiveness, love and patience and of restorative versus retributive justice and it is a story of the long, slow burn of one mother’s love, that transcends all else.