Happiness Is a Warm Gun

Petra Kelly the 1980s green queen and peace activist is shot in her sleep by her lover and political ally former West German army general Gert Bastian He kills himself shortly afterwards Was it murder or did she want that shot What happens to Petra from the time Gerts bullet enters her skull to the moment it lodges in her brain and she dies She experiences a flashforward to the present time and wakes up in the glassy transit zone of an international airport On her trip through this modern purgatory Petra struggles to unravel the meaning of the shot together with Gert and other figures from her life In the explosive moment between life and death she recognizes the force of her most absolute desires