The Handmaid's Tale(2017)
Overview
Set in a dystopian future, a woman is forced to live as a concubine under a fundamentalist theocratic dictatorship.
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June Osborne / Offred / Ofjoseph
Serena Joy Waterford
Moira Strand
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