Joe Verdi

"Absence" is the story of personal loss and tragedy that befalls three very different people in the setting of a small, New York suburb. Told from three points of view, it unfolds in three vignettes which tie a larger storyline together.

A doctor on television's Sex Talk Show gives out very unconventional advices to viewers who phone in with sex problems, until eventually cutting the show off to have sex on the set with a devoted fan, who the doctor herself is also a devoted fan of.

When seduced under investigation, a male prostitute tells the story of a brothel's madam who supposedly hires male strippers only if they "audition" first by giving her cunnilingus, an act which mysteriously gets them hypnotized. They are then stuck in that strange hypnosis as slaves to her every whim because she refuses to proceed to a fully fledged intercourse. Two lusty female detectives investigate the madam's brothel, until they manage to clear up the way for their lieutenant - and the madam's former lover - to enter the madam's office and seduce her with the notion of everything *but* cunnilingus, before arresting her.

When seduced under investigation, a male prostitute tells the story of a brothel's madam who supposedly hires male strippers only if they "audition" first by giving her cunnilingus, an act which mysteriously gets them hypnotized. They are then stuck in that strange hypnosis as slaves to her every whim because she refuses to proceed to a fully fledged intercourse. Two lusty female detectives investigate the madam's brothel, until they manage to clear up the way for their lieutenant - and the madam's former lover - to enter the madam's office and seduce her with the notion of everything *but* cunnilingus, before arresting her.

Vanessa Del Rio pops out of a TV set to instruct a lovelorn secretary in the ways of the flesh.

A young Italian fugitive and his older protective brother hide among the grape pickers at a vineyard in Provence.