Shira's Journey: The Screenplay (The Shira's Journey Project: A Greek Jewish Odyssey

‘Shira’s Journey’ is a Road Movie -With -A -Difference involving three unlikely travelling companions: Shira, an ex-South African documentary filmmaker from Melbourne; Avram an octogenarian Greek Jewish Holocaust Survivor and his American grandson Jeremy, an idealistic lawyer from New York.

On their journey from Corfu to Ioannina, Athens, Volos, Thessaloniki and Rhodos, Avram becomes Shira’s Guide and Mentor and as she learns about the history of the Greek Jews she uncovers her own hurdles to finding happiness, self-actualisation and self-belief.

Through her blossoming relationship with Jeremy, Shira experiences respect and understanding. Always just a phone call away is Shira’s best friend Sonia with whom she shares her whole life and from whom she receives endless love and support.

Her journey through Greece facilitates her inner journey of growth and leads her to understand that she must change within herself in order to leave a destructive relationship. On her return home she changes her life by realizing she is free to choose happiness.

The script has been published as book in script format and is illustrated with photos by world renowned Photographer and Ethnographer Emmanuel Santos. 

Emmanuel has documented the Greek Jewish Holocaust Survivors, Jewish places of interest and what remains of Jewish life in Greece today.

As food is an important character in the script, the book includes some recipes sourced from the small remnants of the Jewish communities still remaining in Greece.