Retrospective documentary on the making of the low-budget sci-fi cult classic Liquid Sky (1982).

Successful writer and scholar Jonathan Merrick falls under the spell of the irresistible, bewitchingly beautiful Ligeia. She's fighting a fatal illness and she will stop at nothing to defeat death, her one true enemy.

When a young female video editor loses her boyfriend in a car crash, she finds solace in watching video of him taken the night before he died. When he starts to communicate with her through that video, she must decide if he has broken through the barrier between this world and the next, or has she slipped off into madness.

An alien creature invades New York's punk subculture in its search for an opiate released by the brain during an orgasm.