"Which one of you bitches is my mother?" has passed into legend as one of the most memorable quotes in television history. Lace (1984) is an American television series based on the novel by British writer Shirley Conran (b. 1932).

Film star Lili (Phoebes Cates) was put up for adoption as a newborn. The story begins around 1980 when Lili travels to an abandoned chateau in the Swiss Alps. The chateau was once a prestigious boarding school and Lili is there to meet with a person who has been paying money to a family which, back in 1960, who agreed to take on the child of a student who was born ‘out of wedlock’. The story flashes back to 1960, introducing the schoolgirls Pagan Trelawney, Judy Hale, and Maxine Pascal as each becomes entangled with a man

Lili, with the help of a private investigator, eventually finds the woman who gave birth to her.