蘭頓·薩斯頓（Renton Thurston）是一名看似普通的十四歲少年，他的父親（阿德洛克·薩斯頓）是一名軍隊的研究人員，在第一次“愛之夏”之中犧牲自己拯救了地球而被世人稱為英雄。然而蘭頓對自己和作為機械工程師的祖父相依為命的生活現狀卻十分不滿，流行的運動“滑空”（Lifting）成了他打發時間的唯一愛好。他最大的夢想是有一天能夠加入傳奇滑空天才霍蘭德（Holland）的組織“月光洲”（Gekkostate），成為和他一樣出色的滑空選手。可是他的祖父（阿克賽爾．薩斯頓）卻希望他成為一名出色的機械工程師，繼承家業。

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.