Dormancy
Dormancy

Dormancy

August 24, 2018 | 16 min

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...

Genres

Drama History

Cast

Naomi Scott

Pierre-Luc Désilets

Naomi Scott

Lee Goldberg

Naomi Scott

Blanca Vivancos

Naomi Scott

Dennis Cunningham

Naomi Scott

Jessica Rheault

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