A comic study of 20th-century history, reconstructing the life of writer, creator and professional prisoner Tulse Lu[er. Born in 1911 Newport, Wales and last heard of in 1989, Luper's life is pieced together from the evidence found in 92 suitcases scattered around the world. A Life in Suitcases condenses the seven-hour trilogy into a single two-hour feature, and in doing so, accentuates the project as a filmic essay in multiple narratives, listings, sidebars, footnotes, commentaries and anecdotes; as a project for an Information Age ready to understand that there never is a phenomenon called History, there can only be Historians, who are always gatekeepers to vested interests.