Dormancy

Overview

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...

Details

Status

Released

Release date

August 24, 2018

Original language

English

Countries

United States of America

Production

ACID Digital Media Productions

Budget

$7

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt8804876