LIQUID SKY

A New Wave fashion show is being held in a crowded Manhattan nightclub. Among the models are bisexual, cocaine-addicted Margaret and her similarly cocaine-addicted nemesis Jimmy. Margaret's drug-dealing girlfriend, Adrian, is constantly hassled by Jimmy because he does not have the money to pay for more drugs.

A small flying saucer lands on the roof of the penthouse apartment occupied by Margaret and Adrian. Jimmy accompanies Margaret home before the show, looking for Adrian's drugs. Margaret and Jimmy return to the club to participate in the show. During preparations, both agree to a photo shoot the following night on Margaret's rooftop. Margaret is subsequently raped by a man she meets in the nightclub.

German scientist Johann Hoffman has been secretly observing the aliens from the Empire State Building. Johann needs somewhere to continue his surveillance when the observation deck closes. He seeks help from the only person he knows in the city, college drama teacher Owen, who is on his way to meet a former student. Johann shows him a photo of the alien, which looks like a retina. Seeking a vantage point on his own, Johann stumbles into Sylvia's building. Sylvia, who is Jimmy's mother, invites him to her apartment for dinner. Across town, Katherine states her objection to the heroin use of her boyfriend, failed writer and addict Paul.

Margaret is seduced by Owen, her former acting professor. After having sex with Margaret, Owen dies

and a translucent crystal protrudes from his head. She removes it, revealing no blood and when completely free of the wound, it evaporates into thin air.

Adrian returns to the penthouse and discovers Owen's corpse, but she is not bothered. Adrian decides to lead a hell-themed wake for Owen. In a bout of psychopathic narcissism and necrophilia, Adrian mounts Owen's face and climaxes while Margaret watches, who pleads for her to stop. A fight ensues and Adrian draws a switchblade on Margaret. They struggle over control of the knife and eventually give up. Adrian then puts Owen's body in a cardboard box and drags it onto the roof where she comforts Margaret, saying they will leave the body behind and depart for Berlin. She leaves to retrieve food for dinner.

At a liquor store, Adrian is confronted by Johann, who attempts to warn her, but is snubbed by a paranoid Adrian, who is convinced Johann is a cop. While Margaret is alone in the apartment, Paul, Adrian's client, returns; Paul attempts to rape her but he is killed by the same crystal. After realizing everyone she has sex with dies, Paul's body disappears.

From Sylvia's apartment, Johann continues his observation between dinner and dodging Sylvia's attempts to seduce him. Adrian arrives home and they prepare a rotisserie chicken and potatoes in aluminum pans on their bed. They are interrupted when the crew arrives at the apartment for the fashion shoot.

During the shoot, Margaret is taunted by Jimmy and the crew, so she forces him to have oral sex with her, knowing it will kill him. After he dies, his body instantly disappears. Adrian, confronted by this anomalous death, antagonizes Margaret into having sex with her, to prove her wrong while playing into her egotistic complex of dominance over the submissive Margaret, who pleads with her not to. Margaret is then held down by the stylist and her companion while Adrian rapes Margaret, achieving climax; she then disappears.

Margaret unplugs all the lights, and applies glow make up while she rants about her identity, upbringing, society and the culture of 1980s Manhattan. She then returns to the club and sees the strange man who raped her and convinces him to go back with her to her apartment, as he is thrilled by her newfound deadly prowess.

Margaret has sex with the date rapist and his body disappears afterwards. She then looks out the window and speaks to the invisible entity "Indian" that she associates with the deaths. After witnessing the deaths through the window in Sylvia's apartment, Johann goes across the street to Margaret's apartment.

Johann reveals that the alien in the flying saucer is extracting endorphins produced by the brain when an orgasm occurs. Margaret survived because she never experienced an orgasm. Margaret stabs Johann to death, which Sylvia witnesses through a telescope. Seeing the alien craft leaving, Margaret injects herself with heroin to induce a wild autoerotic orgasm to ensure the aliens take her with them.

Sylvia and Katherine arrive at the apartment together and reach the penthouse in time to see Margaret being abducted by the aliens. The saucer floats off into outer space.