Klaus Nomi was a classically trained counter-tenor opera singer in his native Germany, but in New York City in late 1970s/early 1980s he combined New Wave pop songs with arias and a sci-fi "alien" persona to launch an extraordinary career as an underground performance artist. Nomi was one of the first celebrities to succumb to AIDS when he died of complications from the disease in 1983. The Nomi Song combines interviews, performance footage, movie clips, and home movies to create a lively, humorous, and poignant portrait of a truly original performer.