Hester Street is a 1975 film which tells the story of an immigrant Jewish woman who clings to the "old ways" while her husband and son succumb to the American culture in turn-of-the-century New York City. It stars Carol Kane, Steven Keats[?] and Paul Freedman[?].
... these institutions, untrained, or immoral, technicians apply all sort of useless treatments. Examples include pulsing an electrical current through the body to kill ...