12 Years a Slave · written by John Ridley and Steve McQueen · 2013

The group enters a hospital that sounds and feels more like a place for dying than recovery.

Scene 78 of 211 · ≈ 1 min on screen · Act one

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Begins 48 min into a 2:22 film

The story so farBefore scene 78

After being kidnapped from New York and sold into slavery, Solomon Northup uses his skills and carefully placed trust to survive and seek a way back to his family.

Scenes 1–29
Solomon lives freely in Saratoga as a husband, father, worker, and musician.
Scenes 30–65
Kidnapped and held under the imposed name Platt, Solomon must preserve his life and identity.
Just before
Scene 75
Doctor Carr dismisses Clemens’s symptoms as a fever until Solomon identifies smallpox from the disease aboard the ship.
Scene 76
Dr. Carr drives Solomon, Eliza, Clemens, John, and other sick captives in a wagon toward treatment.
Scene 77
At Charity Hospital, the arrivals see carpenters making rows of coffins behind the building.
Scene 78
This scene

78INT. CHARITY HOSPITAL - LATER

The group, led by Doctor Carr, enters. Though a hospital, it doesn't really seems a place for healing. More a place for dying; a place where the sick are brought and kept until they can be delivered to the death which waits for them. As if to underscore this, we CAN HEAR THE MOANS OF PATIENTS drifting through the hallways.