Roswell Delirium is an emotionally charged 1980s science fiction thriller that tells the story of another 1980 in which the US is hit by a wave of nuclear attacks, and in the aftermath, those who remain pretend that everything is normal, even though they are all suffering due to radiation poisoning. A young girl named Mayday tries to make contact through a series of amateur radios with her father, who is in space on a shuttle mission. Instead of making contact, she receives an intergalactic emergency 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 her organs begin to fail. Knowing that medical treatment will not help, her mother Wendy brings her back to Spacerock to give her to the aliens who in the hope that she can be saved.