Dormancy

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