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...
Released: Aug 24, 2018
Runtime: 16 minutes
Stars: Pierre-Luc Désilets, Lee Goldberg, Blanca Vivancos, Dennis Cunningham, Jessica Rheault, Nicholas W. Callais
Crew: Luke Becker-Lowe (Writer), Luke Becker-Lowe (Cinematography), Nicholas W. Callais (Writer), Luke Becker-Lowe (Producer), Luke Becker-Lowe (Director), George Geanopulos (Editor)