Pop singer Vicki Robbins collapses from exhaustion while shooting ta music video; her physician prescribes a respite on Seagull Island with beekeeper Ralph Hargrove. Initially finding the Hargroves' bitter marital strife oddly relaxing, the arrival of specially-bred attack bees pushes Vicki to her survival instinct.

Suzanna Leigh
as Vicki Robbins

Frank Finlay
as H.W. Manfred

Guy Doleman
as Ralph Hargrove

Catherine Finn
as Mary Hargrove

John Harvey
as Thompson

Michael Ripper
as David Hawkins

Anthony Bailey
as Compere

Tim Barrett
as Harcourt

James Cossins
as Coroner

Frank Forsyth
as Doctor