Story of displacement, power, and vulnerability told through the relationship between a hostess, the bartender she loves, and the boss who controls them. The story is set in the underworld of the New York City's Japanese Diaspora.
Olivia works the late shift at the local Exit Bureau, where she spends her nights convincing people to end their lives for society's greater good. One evening, after her supervisor issues a chilling ultimatum, her world begins to fall apart.
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...
