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Dormancy (2018)

Name: Dormancy
Genre: Drama, History
Released: 2018
Duration: 16 min

Directed by Nicholas W. Callais, Luke Becker-Lowe

Drama, History · 16m

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...