Summary
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
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Timothy Spall
Maurice Purley
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Claire Rushbrook
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