Latin America, the USSR, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Hungary, Germany, China, Albania, North Korea, Rumania, Bulgaria, Cuba, Iceland.
The play tells of the island of Moluka in the South Pacific, where the enlightened inhabitants live an almost Utopian existence under the rule of a white man, Simon Hoad, to whose family the island was given by Queen Victoria a century ago.
Their existence is threatened when they are informed that a new super-bomb is to be exploded on a neighbouring island and that they must be evacuated.
Scientists and officers visit Moluka to put their case and bring pressure.
Hoad refuses to leave and seeks to enlist the sympathies of people all over the world in his fight to be allowed to survive in his island paradise.