An alien who wants only to understand the baffling human race abducts a series of earthlings and interviews them. In the course of his researches, he falls in love with a beautician named Edna who calls him Desi and moves into the spaceship with him. When Desi decides to break it to the people of earth that there is indeed life on other planets, he is stunned by the response: they want to make him into a god.