Donna Anderson

A long-distance trucker, dressed like a sea captain, aimlessly sails the American highways in his 18 wheeler mumbling manic, southern accented non sequiturs; carnivalizing roadside stops and happenstance towns while out-weirding cops and weigh stations with his new cryptic, over-coated hitchhiker buddy.

Schoolteacher Bertram Cates is arrested for teaching his students Darwin's theory of evolution. The case receives national attention and one of the newspaper reporters, E.K. Hornbeck, arranges to bring in renowned defense attorney and atheist Henry Drummond to defend Cates. The prosecutor, Matthew Brady is a former presidential candidate, famous evangelist, and old adversary of Drummond.

第三次世界大戦が勃発し、世界全土は核攻撃によって放射能汚染が広がり北半球はすでに全滅。僅かに残った南半球の一部地域に人々が暮らすだけになっていた。そんなある日、本国に帰港出来なくなったアメリカ原子力潜水艦がメルボルンに入港する。そこで艦長タワーズは美しい女性モイラに出会いしばしの休日を楽しむが、その地にも死の灰は確実に迫っていた…。