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The program explores an organization that rents women with children to bachelors for days at a time. A woman talks about signing up with the program. Panel discussion about the program with a spokesman and questioners: men who choose a range of different families; renting spare children; the cost of different families; built in obsolescence; the relative value of long and short term relationships; the RAF as prostitution. Clips from the catalog of applicant videos against a background of chimes and Joe listing random nouns. The woman discusses her first experience in the program. Panel discussion continues: loneliness; the no parent family; intimacy in short term relationships; fast moving society, a bachelor in RAF commits suicide. More catalog clips. The woman describes the first meeting with her renter for a picnic on the beach. [Spoiler removed.] Panel discussion: the strangeness of the encounter as a positive, alienation in ordinary marriage. | The program explores an organization that rents women with children to bachelors for days at a time. A woman talks about signing up with the program. Panel discussion about the program with a spokesman and questioners: men who choose a range of different families; renting spare children; the cost of different families; built in obsolescence; the relative value of long and short term relationships; the RAF as prostitution. Clips from the catalog of applicant videos against a background of chimes and Joe listing random nouns. The woman discusses her first experience in the program. Panel discussion continues: loneliness; the no parent family; intimacy in short term relationships; fast moving society, a bachelor in RAF commits suicide. More catalog clips. The woman describes the first meeting with her renter for a picnic on the beach. [Spoiler removed.] Panel discussion: the strangeness of the encounter as a positive, alienation in ordinary marriage. | ||
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== Music == | |||
{{A Fine Line (Tim Story)}}<ref>This is Eleanor's theme: it plays before and while she speaks.</ref> | |||
{{Eihwaz (Defense) / Kano (Opening) (Giles Reaves)}}<ref>This is the panel's theme: it plays before and when they speak.</ref> | |||
{{Gypsy Violin (Harold Budd)}}<ref>This plays when Joe talks to families he has rented.</ref> | |||
== Miscellanea == | == Miscellanea == | ||
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This show was so emotionally powerful, that the actors involved often broke down in tears (in real life) during the taping. | This show was so emotionally powerful, that the actors involved often broke down in tears (in real life) during the taping. | ||
== Commentary == | == Commentary == | ||