flesh be hard to describe with a solid summary because and well and there basically isn not a plot . the film pretty much just show the day in the life of a hustler name joe ( joe dallesandro and who be in the underrated louis malle picture black moon ) a he make his round and sleep and model around to cash in the buck to pay for his wife lover abortion . not much and and since the film be quite a lengthy eighty nine minute and you would think that flesh would be a slow moving and boring hour and a half . you think wrong . the film be make up of improv and no screenplay and the angle of the film be pretty on the spot as well and yet there be some kind of truth beneath every frame that give the film it dementedly entertaining vibrancy . everything make sense and serf purpose in what happen to joe in this one day . he meet a regular john that be obviously lie when say he want to see joe again and a photographer who talk so much that it bore joe to tear and two drag queen who read out of tabloid magazine a joe receives head from a mousy voice addict who mumble on later about how she want to get a breast lift and an old friend of joe who read male on male rape story to him and and then a final scene with his wife and her lover that eerily echo the scene at the start of the film ( one of the best opening to a film i have see in quite some time ) and tell completely what the film be overall philosophically about . it astound how the film message and style feel almost timeless and even though it set in 1960s new york city and in real time and in real place and and be film like an obvious independent flick from that era . it certainly not a film that could be make today and which add on to it delicious mystique . fuel by unexpected jump cut while and absent of a score to advance it image flesh be about a raw and gritty a a film about male prostitution in the 60 can get .