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...
Luke Becker-Lowe | Director |
Luke Becker-Lowe | Writer |
Luke Becker-Lowe | Producer |
Luke Becker-Lowe | Cinematography |
Nicholas W. Callais | Director |
Nicholas W. Callais | Writer |
Nicholas W. Callais | Producer |
Benjamin Knorr | Music |
Stephen Szmed | Producer |
George Geanopulos | Editor |