After her adoptive mother dies, Hortense, a successful black optometrist, seeks out her birth mother. She's shocked when her research leads her to Cynthia, a working class white woman.

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Cast

BB01ABrenda BlethynCynthia Rose Purley
MJ02AMarianne Jean-BaptisteHortense Cumberbatch
TS03ATimothy SpallMaurice Purley
PL04APhyllis LoganMonica Purley
CR05AClaire RushbrookRoxanne Purley
LR06ALee RossPaul
LM07ALesley ManvilleThe Social Worker
EB08AElizabeth BerringtonJane

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Secrets & Lies

Screen 9 · Row L · Seat 24 · 1996

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