Sunday Drive

In the absence of the divine comes confusion, loneliness, loss of time, inertia and frustration.

An audiotape plays on small cassette recorder in a room. A female voice from the tape recounts her possible murder and fickle dalliances with a series of men, ruminating on which one may have killed her. At the other end of the room a woman, Sweetpea, tries desperately to escape. Is this Hell, the afterlife, or the inside of Sweetpea's troubled mind?

Imagine if David Lynch cast a pensioner or a mummified figure from Pompeii as the star of an experimental short film, and that's what 'Absence' comes close to.

Rory is responsible for losing the love of his life, Ana. Mourning, he drifts listlessly through existence. His friends try to pull him back to reality. A chance encounter with an enigmatic and unnerving street performer allows Rory to connect with Ana once more.

Bobo is a bounder. A cad. This clown enters the lives of three women, a Mother, Fran, and her two daughters, Pearl and Robyn. He steals Fran's heart, impregnates Pearl and leaves Robyn with an engagement ring and a fatal disease. Following his death the women hold a strange wake where their jealousies and pain come to the surface.