Secrets & Lies
“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.”
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Synopsis
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.
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