A Boy and His Dog

La sopravvivenza quotidiana di Vic nell`Arizona post-apocalittica del 2024 al termine della quarta guerra mondiale. Vic è accompagnato dal fido cane Blood con il quale è in grado di comunicare telepaticamente. Il compito di Blood è quello di scovare, garzie al suo fiuto, le donne, che, vista la situazione, se ne stanno ben nascoste, ed evitare che il ragazzo incappi negli "screamers", nomadi mutanti radioattivi. Ma Vic si rifiuta di ascoltare i consigli del cane. L`ultima preda del duo, la bella Quilla Jun Holmes, si rivela essere una scafata seduttrice e riesce a convincere Vic ad accompagnarla nel mondo da cui proviene, la città sotterranea di Topaka...

Set in a post-nuclear war Earth in the year 2024, the main character, Vic (Don Johnson) is an 18-year-old boy, born in and scavenging throughout the wasteland of the former southwestern United States. Vic is most concerned with food and sex; having lost both of his parents, he has no formal education and does not understand ethics or morality. He is accompanied by a well-read, Misanthropy, telepathic dog named Blood who helps him locate women in return for food. Blood cannot forage for himself due to the same genetic engineering that granted him telepathy. The two steal for a living, evading bands of marauders, berserk androids, and mutants. Blood and Vic have an occasionally antagonistic relationship (Blood frequently annoys Vic by calling him "Albert" for reasons never made clear in the movie, but rather in an interview later on with Harlan Ellison, where he says “When he [Blood] calls him ‘Al’ or ‘Albert,’ he is referring to the Albert Payson Terhune dog stories, whereas a traditional boy and his dog relationship is turned upside down in this movie.”), though they realize that they need each other. Blood wishes to find the legendary promised land of "Over the Hill" where aboveground utopias are said to exist, though Vic believes that they must make the best of what they have.