| Summary: | In 2012, officials at the Santa Clara Valley Medical Center got more than they bargained for while preparing the construction of a new hospital wing. Buried for decades underneath a parking lot, they uncovered a paupers' cemetery once associated with the hospital in the late 19th century. Now, anthropologists at California State University, Chico study the collection and its significance in the past and in our future. This film attempts to give a voice to the individuals interred in the medical center cemetery, who were among some of the poorest and most disenfranchised members of the Santa Clara Valley community at the time of their death. It also investigates how the study of this skeletal collection might offer us the tools we need to overcome an impending medical crises.
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