Dormancy

Set in 1932, at the height of prohibition and the growing American eugenics movement, the state of Vermont passes a law allowing for sexual sterilization of "idiots, imbeciles, feeble minded or insane persons likely to procreate." Dormancy follows a young woman and her new husband who work the land and earn a small income herding sheep and working with lumber. The couple is lured into a rural clinic where they subjected to the sadistic goals of the doctors and eugenics field workers. For this modest family, life will never be quite the same...

Genre:

Drama, History

Duration:

16 min

Cast:

Pierre-Luc Désilets, Lee Goldberg, Blanca Vivancos

Quality:

HD

Director:

Luke Becker-Lowe, Nicholas W. Callais

Release:

2018

Country:

United States

Rating:

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