Top Cast
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Dulcie Smart
Agnes
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Lin Gothoni
Martha
Overview
In a surreal clinic where women's grief is diagnosed, categorized, and prescribed, two patients — one after miscarriage, one after hysterectomy — confront the absurd rituals of institutional care and begin to reclaim their rage.
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