![Patty Hearst](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w185/tKXJOVLOVG7lO2enlB89n9tkv7T.jpg)
Influenced by the social and geopolitical situation of the early nineteen-seventies and the hippie youth movement of the late nineteen-sixties, Quatermass is set in a near future in which large numbers of young people are joining a cult, the “Planet People”, and gathering at ancient sites, believing they will be transported to a better life on another planet.