Porn’s images never satisfy the gaze which suggest in itself an answer to these questions. Through a variety of experimental cinematic devices, Promise has us see porn differently. To avoid using explicit imagery, the visual approach was developed by sublimating nudity and proposing, instead, a set of metaphors.

Shot in SOHO, in the heart of the west end of London, the investigation is tinged with a wry humor. The trade in bodies is suggested by using the rumor of the fruit and vegetable market adjacent to the backstreet sex shops. The saturated primary colors of the neon lights, Eros above the fountain in Piccadilly Circus and the statue of Aphrodite in the British Museum are the real and imagined characters of a red-light district where promises are never kept and where "seeing everything" amounts to seeing nothing.