 In Absentia is an experiment in storytelling. It focuses on a character (and storyteller) with an unreliable point of view. His view of reality is distorted, but he himself doesn t realize this until it is too late. You can t always believe the one telling the story, even when the storyteller believes the story to be true. The world portrayed is not always what is really happening. Each person s point of view builds a different picture of reality based upon "what we know," not what is really happening.