Roxanne drives her mother crazy. Maurice never speaks to his niece. Cynthia has a shock for her family. Monica can't talk to her husband. Hortense has never met her mother.
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
Brenda Blethyn Cynthia Rose Purley
Marianne Jean-Baptiste Hortense Cumberbatch
Timothy Spall Maurice Purley
Phyllis Logan Monica Purley
Claire Rushbrook Roxanne Purley
Lee Ross Paul
Lesley Manville The Social Worker
Elizabeth Berrington Jane
Michele Austin Dionne
Ron Cook Stuart
Trevor Laird Hortense's Brother
Brian Bovell Hortense's BrotherScreenings in Brussels
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