Secrets & Lies

(1996)

★ 7.6 IMDb · 751 votes

Genres: Drama

Year: 1996

Runtime: 142 мин

Country: United Kingdom, France

Director: Майк Ли

Cast: Бренда Блетин, Мэрианн Жан-Баптист, Тимоти Сполл, Филлис Логан, Клэр Рашбрук, Ли Росс, Лесли Мэнвилл, Элизабет Беррингтон, Мишель Остин, Ron Cook

Plot

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.

Cynthia lives in London with her sullen street-sweeper daughter. Her brother has been successful with his photographer's business and now lives nearby in a more upmarket house. But Cynthia hasn't even been invited round there after a year. So, all round, she feels rather lonely and isolated. Meanwhile, in another part of town, Hortense, adopted at birth but now grown up, starts to try and trace her mother.