

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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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

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 Brother
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