Dormancy

Dormancy — Plot

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...

• Release date
• August 24, 2018
• Runtime
• 16 min
• Genres
• Drama, History
• Director
• Nicholas W. Callais

Dormancy — Cast

Pierre-Luc Désilets Jacob Cloutier

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Lee Goldberg Emily Cloutier Blanca Vivancos Mother Ann

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Dennis Cunningham Dr. Geralds

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Jessica Rheault Nurse #1

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Nicholas W. Callais Doctor #2

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Michael Bartz Doctor #3