Alpha-bet soup is the story of a struggling physics grad student in the early 60's about to wash out, Richard, who becomes the unwitting pawn of a bet between two spies. What starts as a summer job to get him back on track finds Richard pretending to be a scientific bigwig at a secret government lab. While there he will learn that his knack for invention is the key to understand the secrets of the UFOs they study, and the only way to maintain his cover until he can figure out what games the alphabet soup of government agencies are playing with him.