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Dormancy

  • August 2018
  • 16mins

  • Drama
  • History
  • Directed by

    Luke Becker-Lowe,

    Nicholas W. Callais,

    Starring

    Pierre-Luc Désilets,

    Lee Goldberg,

    Blanca Vivancos,

    Dennis Cunningham

    ...

    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...