Secrets & Lies (1996)

Directors

Mike Leigh

Cast

Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Brenda Blethyn, Timothy Spall, Phyllis Logan, Claire Rushbrook, Elizabeth Berrington, Lee Ross, Michele Austin

The story

Hortense Cumberbatch, a black optometrist in London, embarks on a journey to trace her family history following the death of her adoptive mother. Despite warnings about potential challenges, she discovers her birth mother is Cynthia Purley, a white woman working in a cardboard box factory in South East London, near Old Kent Road. Cynthia lives with her daughter Roxanne, a street sweeper, and tensions arise in their strained relationship.

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