martyr kaveh akbarCyrus Shams is lost. Ever since his mothers plane was senselessly shot down over the Persian Gulf when he was just a baby, Cyrus has been grappling with her death. Now, newly sober, he is set to learn the truth of her life. When an encounter with a dying artist leads Cyrus towards the mysteries of his past an uncle who rode through Iranian battlefields dressed as an Angel of Death, a haunting work of art by an exiled painter he finds himself once