In Michael, Bieke Depoorter examines the life and the disappearance of a man she met on the streets of Portland, Oregon, in 2015. Gifted three suitcases of Michaelโs personal items, sketchbooks and essays, his subsequent disappearance turns Depoorter detective. Depoorterโs work documents her immersive, perhaps obsessive, quest to find Michael and to understand his life.