Alan Parker's painful last memory of his mother is of herleaving the family home when he was five - the reason she leftand what happened to her afterwards remain a mystery thatAlan's desperate to solve. In the second case, seven-year-oldKatherine Fletcher was told that she was adopted and felt animmediate sense of shame - although unfounded, that shamefuelled a desire to find her birth mother that has onlyintensified as the years have passed.
