Dormancy (2018)

Dormancy is a short film set in 1932 Northern Vermont. 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". Our story follows a young woman and her new husband. They work the land, and earn a small income herding sheep and working with lumber. They live simply with hopes of eventually starting a family. Like many Vermont families at the time, they are visited by field workers involved with the eugenics movement. Their family history and their French Canadian roots are well documented. Given false information about their health risks, they eventually agree to undergo "new procedures" available to them. 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.