Family Secrets

Seasons

2003

Canada

9.1

Family Secrets is a raw, compelling and honest account of the impact of secrets on families and their lives. The series takes viewers on an intensely personal, humourously nervous and emotionally moving journey into the private world of family relationships.

Episode List

S1 • E1

Birth Mothers Never Forget

Birth Mothers Never Forget follows the story of a woman who as a teenager was forced to give up her first-born son for adoption. Still haunted by her decision thirty-six years later, she faces a roller coaster of emotions as her eldest daughter prepares for the birth of her first child.

S1 • E2

Blowing Out the Candles

Birthdays are a time for celebration, but rather than celebrate with his family, a young man resorts to drugs, alcohol and sleep. His sister is increasingly concerned that her slacker brother will follow in the footsteps of their mother, who drank herself to death.

S1 • E3

Introducing Debbie

A son asks his father "How does it feel to be a grandmother?" The father responds "I'm too young to be a grandmother". Meet Debbie, the once-married father of two teenage sons who decides that in order to be his true self, he must live his life as a woman.

S1 • E4

Loss and Found

A woman learns the baby she's carrying will be stillborn. But after months of intense grief, she discovers an inner-strength and vocation that helps her find a new place in her community and resume her life.

S1 • E5

Love Behind Bars

No one said love was easy, especially when a couple's only means of contact is through a bullet-proof window. Following her convict lover from one maximum-security facility to another has caused a prison social worker to leave her family and relinquish her own 'freedom'.

S1 • E6

Best Laid Plans

A well-adjusted couple in their 20s want to have kids. When the young woman discovers she may never conceive, she tries to balance fertility treatments with familial pressure.

S1 • E7

Second Helping

Starving herself to ' look the part' has finally caught up with a former competitive junior skater. After being diagnosed as anorexic, 15 years later, she must compete with her inner demons to get her life back on course.

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Cast

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