A Rifle for Sleeping

Janko a police officerveteran of the war who is suffering from insomnia caused by posttraumatic stress disorder now works as a guard in front of the Russian embassy in Zagreb Having abandoned his former paramour the daughter of his police chief he marries a kleptomaniacal hairdresser named Nana whom he once caught in the act of picking pockets He then embarks on an affair with the beautiful Marta the widow of the war profiteer Dragutin Karlo Stajner who has left behind him a bankrupted firm a worthless limousine several bastards and at least one angry woman While Janko and Marta persistently try to divvy up what loot remains before any number of others can claim it Karlo unexpectedly turns up alive and jumps into the middle of a fray between Marta Karlos lover Julija a Czech barsinger and Julijas husband Vlado a former henchman of Karlos who is now trying to lay claim to Stajners limo