A moving and genre-bending story about our era-spanning search for meaning and knowing. Set in the present day, it begins when a young woman inherits a suitcase from her dead grandmother, with no information other than the word "GLIFF" on the luggage tag. Unsure whether it's someone's name or a description of the contents, she opens it to find a thin piece of collaged parchment - a mix of worn waxy fabric and a dry and brittle substance she can't place.