Have ansible manage the contents of a directory (including subdirectories)

[Mark Raider]

I am having difficulty figuring out how to have ansible manage the content of a directory, including subdirectories.

For example.. 

if I have the following

example_top_level_dir/

      -> subdir1

      -> subdir2

And I remove the subdir2 from Ansible...I want that reflected on the remote machine...Is there something similar to puppet's "purge" where I can basically "sync" a reference directory in Ansible on a remote machine?

[Mark Raider]

Also should have included this in the initial post....I would prefer to not have to use the synchronize module as that requires rsync on both machines.