Altar to an Erupting Sun

Rae Kelliher is a veteran environmental activist and pioneer in the death-with-dignity movement. Her husband Reggie calls her party in a box and a weaver of people and movements. Facing a diagnosis of terminal illness, Rae engages in a shocking suicide-murder, taking the life of an oil company CEO for his complicity in delaying responses to climate catastrophe. Seven years later, Raes friends and family gather at her Vermont farm to try to understand her violent exit and the rapid social transformations triggered by her desperate act. See more