During the 1980s the US is hit by a wave of nuclear attacks and after the fallout, those who remain pretend like everything is normal even though they are all experiencing radiation poisoning.

A young girl named Mayday tried to make contact on a series of ham radios with her father who is in space on a shuttle mission.  Instead of making contact Mayday receives a distress call from space that leads her on a journey to Spacerock, the land where Area 51 once was. She is exposed to severe levels of radiation and within days all of her organs begin to fail.

Knowing that medical treatment won't help, her mother, Wendy, brings her back to Spacerock to give her to the aliens in hopes that they may be able to save her.

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