Swedish thriller series Honour (Heder) is the brain child of actresses, co-creators and exec producers Sofia Helin, Alexandra Rapaport, Julia Dufvenius and Anja Lundqvist.

Stockholm-based newly formed prodco Bigster (co-headed by Rapaport) is producing the eight-part drama series for Discovery Networks Sweden, with Eccho Rights handling world sales.

The four actresses have honed their TV drama creative skills on various shows over the last couple of years and played a key role in each series’ high ratings, such as Rapaport in Kanal 5’s Gåsmamman, Helin in SVT/DR’s Bron (The Bridge), Dufvenius and Lundqvist in TV3’s comedy series Mammor.

Heder is the name of a law firm headed by four female partners and long-time friends, on a mission to make the world a better place for women, victims of violence. Inexplicable and scary things start to happen to the hard-working lawyers, each contacted in a different way by an unknown person. Coarse sexual images are sent, the office is vandalised and it looks like the threats come from a powerful force from the criminal underworld.

The firm takes on a case where a well-known and wealthy businessman has fallen off the balcony of a flat owned by a prostitute. The investigation on the case leads to something deeply unsettling.

Speaking to the UK newspaper ‘The Independent’, Helin said the series will be ‘a bit like Sex in the City Meets the Millennium trilogy’. “It’s all about honour. When you abuse someone, you take their honour. It’s the last thing you have,” she said.

Heder will be pitched on November 27 in London during the C21 International Drama Summit by Helin, Rapaport, Dufvenius and Bigster producer Birgitta Wännström.