12-year old dreamer Vlad likes telling fantastic stories about his courage to his summer camp friends, although he is a bit of a coward himself. But one day Vlad finds himself in a real adventure as he accidentally gets caught in a conflict between two alien forces. Shapeshifting Trashmen, descendants of an ancient alien civilization, try to disable electricity on the whole planet by deactivating the defensive shield that protects the Earth from an approaching solar wave. In this way they challenge the all-powerful and mysterious Energy that enabled humanity's technological progress and which we depend on more than ever. In this battle Vlad is helped by a transformer box called the Bobot, which holds the key to saving the world. While telling stories about fictional courage is easy, Vlad will find out that overcoming his fear in the real world is quite a challenge. Mankind's future lies solely in his hands.
未來的地下世界,其實就是一個基地,在這裡,到處是冰冷的監視器。生活在這裡的人們,全被剃光了頭,沒有名字,只有一個工作編號,每天從事繁重的勞動——集體勞動。主人公——代號THX1138(羅伯特?杜瓦爾 Robert Duvall 飾),就是這裡數以百萬計的普通一員,他在女性室友的啟發下,停止服用了每天發給的藥物。於是,他僵化的思想開始復甦,開始對他的女性室友產生了一種特殊感覺。當兩人發生關係並被判處強姦罪時,思想徹底醒悟到他開始了漫長的逃亡之路。