Renton Thurston vive uma vida monótona numa cidade igualmente monótona, e mora com seu rígido avô. Ele sonha em se encontrar com o seu herói - Holland - e tornar-se famoso no mundo do "reefing". O destino, porém, decidiu que ele faria isso e muito mais, ao lhe dar a chance de se encontrar com uma garota incomum montada em um misterioso mecha. Este encontro se torna o catalisador para um conjunto de eventos que para sempre mudaria a vida de Renton.
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.