Blue Bag Life is a story gleaned from material collected over a lifetime. Lisa
Selby, an artist and lecturer, has always documented her life in paint, words,
photographs and film. As Lisa struggles to comprehend why her mother Helen
didn’t raise her, Helen dies. Helen was charismatic, articulate, beautiful and
addicted to heroin. Lisa now begins to get to know the woman she never
called Mother, through the things she left behind and the memories of people
who knew her. Lisa’s partner, Elliot, relapses on heroin and is incarcerated.
Through her own sobriety and her love for Elliot, Lisa comes to understand
addiction, and Helen, differently. She also uncovers a new possibility towards
motherhood deep within herself.

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