Agnes desperately attempts to save her dying son Hamnet using folk remedies and superstitions, refusing to accept the inevitable. Her daughter Susanna witnesses her mother's frantic grief and the high emotional stakes of a family facing a tragic loss.
AGNES: Go and get the stone. There is a stone by his bed with a hole! I must place it under his pillow. Bring it to me!
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