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 Cynthia, a working class white woman.
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Secrets & Lies
1996
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Wenn der Vater mit dem Sohne
Duration: 0 h 0 m | 2005
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