Hortense, a successful and well-adjusted Black optometrist who was adopted at birth, goes in search of her biological mother. The woman in question, Cynthia, is an unhappy white factory worker who has a difficult relationship with her other daughter Roxanne and resents the lack of attention paid to her by her brother Maurice, a photographer who lives in the suburbs with his aloof wife Monica.
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Les nombreux prix décernés à Mike Leigh et Brenda Blethyn (grandiose !) amplement mérités. (****1/2)