In a title sequence shot by Maurice Binder, a chorus of Spanish flamenco dancers explains why the film's location is Greece rather than Spain.

Life on the remote fictional Greek island of Karos is changed for ever when atomic bombs are dropped there by a military plane which was rapidly losing power.

Life on the island is so bleak that some inhabitants stage a mass exodus, on hearing news that Denmark has opened Greenland to Greek emigration.

Lacking resources – money to buy clothes or food, or even to pay for a long-distance call to base – they scour the island like vagabonds.

The agents are eventually led back to this panicked pair, but not before they throw Container Q into the sea, and the stones into a cistern which provides the island's water.

The pilots, having begged enough small change from the tourists to call home, are shocked to be forced away from the long-distance phone in the post office by the agents.

The revellers continue dancing wildly, as a voice from a public address system pleads in vain for their attention, presumably to warn them of their imminent demise.

[9][10] Time magazine's 13 October 1967 review called it a "1,000,000-mega-ton [sic] bomb" and suggested, "It may ... be the homosexiest movie since Modesty Blaise," referring in part to its stars Courtenay and Blakely as "spend[ing] the rest of the film in their Jockey shorts playing peekaboo with the villagers" and describing other male characters' costuming as "the cunningest [quaintest] white booties, fishnet T shirts, lavender and puce shorts.