Secrets & Lies

After the death of her adoptive parents, Hortense (Marianne Jean-Baptiste), a successful young black optometrist, seeks out her biological mother, only to discover a shocking truth: her birth mother is Cynthia (Brenda Blethyn), a lonely white factory worker living in poverty in East London. At first, Cynthia denies the claim, but she eventually admits to giving birth to Hortense as a teenager, setting in motion the revelation of a series of long-buried secrets and lies as the two women begin to bond.