兰顿·萨斯顿（Renton Thurston）是一名看似普通的十四岁少年，他的父亲（阿德洛克·萨斯顿）是一名军队的研究人员，在第一次“爱之夏”之中牺牲自己拯救了地球而被世人称为英雄。然而兰顿对自己和作为机械工程师的祖父相依为命的生活现状却十分不满，流行的运动“滑空”（Lifting）成了他打发时间的唯一爱好。他最大的梦想是有一天能够加入传奇滑空天才霍兰德（Holland）的组织“月光洲”（Gekkostate），成为和他一样出色的滑空选手。可是他的祖父（阿克赛尔．萨斯顿）却希望他成为一名出色的机械工程师，继承家业。

Highway Patrol was a syndicated, fictional police action series produced from 1955 to 1959, concerning the activities of the highway patrol and their leader, Dan Matthews (who held no rank). Although filmed in and around the Los Angeles area, the state setting for the stories was never identified, and city and street names were fictionalized.

The Secret Rulers of the World was first shown on Channel 4 in April 2001. The five-part documentary series accompanied creator Jon Ronson's book 'Them: Adventures with Extremists', which covered similar topics and described many of the same episodes. Both the series and book detail Ronson's encounters following theorists and activists residing outside political, religious, and sociological norms.