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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Brenda Blethyn
Cynthia Rose Purley
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Marianne Jean-Baptiste
Hortense Cumberbatch
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Timothy Spall
Maurice Purley
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Monica Purley
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Roxanne Purley
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The Social Worker
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Stuart
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Hortense's Brother
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Hortense's Brother
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