Secrets & Lies
After her adoptive mother dies, Hortense, a successful black optometrist, seeks out her birth mother. She's shocked when her research leads her to a working class white woman, Cynthia. At first Cynthia denies the claim, but she eventually admits to birthing Hortense as a teenager, and the two begin to bond. However, when Cynthia invites Hortense to a family barbecue, Cynthia's already tense relationship with her family becomes even more complicated.
Genre: Drama
Actor: Brenda Blethyn , Marianne Jean-Baptiste , Timothy Spall , Phyllis Logan , Claire Rushbrook
Director: Mike Leigh
Country: France , United Kingdom