"Packed in a Trunk" uncovers the trail of lesbian artist Edith Lake Wilkinson, who was committed to an asylum in 1925 and never heard from again. All of her worldly possessions were packed into trunks and shipped to a relative in West Virginia, where they sat in an attic for 40 years. Edith's great-niece, Emmy Award-winning writer and director Jane Anderson, grew up surrounded by Edith's paintings, thanks to her mother who had gone poking through that dusty attic and rescued Edith's sophisticated, light-filled canvasses.