Absent

For over a hundred years Mărculești was a vibrant Jewish agricultural and mercantile community in Bessarabia now presentday Moldova In July 1941 the village was the site of an unimaginable atrocity Seventythree years later few speak honestly or completely about what happened ABSENT is a cinematic portrait of the ghost village of Mărculești its current inhabitants and their very complex relationship to their own history Filmed entirely on location the film documents one of Europes poorest most remote and leastvisited places