公元 2072 年，在可以從第四次元「W」獲取無限能量的「線圈」影響之下，人類到達了繁榮的巔峰。但使用通過非正規手段獲取的「不法線圈」來進行的犯罪也在暗中橫行，而回收它們則將得到一筆懸賞金。善於回收的「回收者」間淵·響麻在某件委託當中與神秘的少女·米拉相遇。曾經在線圈事故中失去了一切的響麻，以及尋求自己出生秘密的米拉，兩人一同開始追尋「線圈」的真相…。

Æon Flux is set in a bizarre, dystopian future world. The title character is a tall, leather-clad secret agent from the nation of Monica, skilled in assassination and acrobatics. Her mission is to infiltrate the strongholds of the neighboring country of Bregna, which is led by her sometimes-nemesis and sometimes-lover Trevor Goodchild. Monica represents a dynamic anarchist society, while Bregna embodies a police state.

Pandora's Box is a six-part 1992 BBC documentary television series which examines the consequences of political and technocratic rationalism. The episodes deal, in order, with communism in The Soviet Union, systems analysis and game theory during the Cold War, economy in the United Kingdom during the 1970s, the insecticide DDT, Kwame Nkrumah's leadership in Ghana during the 1950s and 1960s and the history of nuclear power.