Unexpected events occur when Pat, a glamorous British-born star of American soaps, returns home to plug her auto-biography on television and meets, for the first time since they were teenagers, Margaret her plain and frumpy younger sister. The meeting is painful for both women highlighting the vast differences in their lives and resurrecting painful memories of their unhappy childhood with an uncaring, errant mother. The tabloid press smell a juicy story and a race ensues to trace the whereabouts of the long lost parent.

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Cast

Victoria Wood

Margaret

Julie Walters

Pat

Celia Imrie

Claire

Duncan Preston

Jim

Thora Hird

Jim's Mother

Deborah Grant

Stella

Don Henderson

Billy

Shirley Stelfox

Vera

Anne Reid

Maeve

Julie Hesmondhalgh

Helper in Old Age Home

Angela Curran

Lady in Motel

Madge Hindle

Lady in Motel