The Handmaid's Tale
A haunting tale of sexuality in a country gone wrong.
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A bleak, intellectually rigorous dystopian drama about a woman stripped of autonomy and humanity under a theocratic regime, driven by paranoia and existential dread.
In a dystopian, polluted right-wing religious tyranny, a young woman is put in sexual slavery on account of her now rare fertility.
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