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.
Top Cast
Brenda Blethyn as Cynthia Rose Purley
Marianne Jean-Baptiste as Hortense Cumberbatch
Timothy Spall as Maurice Purley
Phyllis Logan as Monica Purley
Claire Rushbrook as Roxanne Purley
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