Queen Elizabeth I (Jenny Runacre) is transported forward in time by the occultist John Dee (mathematician) (Richard O'Brien) by the aid of the spirit guide Ariel (The Tempest) (a character from William Shakespeare's ''The Tempest'') whom he commands. Elizabeth arrives in the shattered Britain of the 1970s. Queen Elizabeth II is dead, killed in an arbitrary robbery, and Elizabeth I moves through the social and physical decay of the city observing the sporadic activities of a group of aimless nihilism, including Amyl nitrite (Jordan (Pamela Rooke)), Bod (Runacre in a dual role), Chaos (Hermine Demoriane), Crabs (Nell Campbell), and Mad (Toyah Willcox).