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...

Top 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