Film · 2018 · 16 Min.

Dormancy

Name: Dormancy
Genre: Drama, Historie
Released: 2018-08-24
Duration: 16 min
Cast: Pierre-Luc Désilets, Lee Goldberg, Blanca Vivancos, Dennis Cunningham, Jessica Rheault

Drama Historie

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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...