Waters' first full lenght feature film on a budget of $2,000, was a "gutter film"; It was filmed in alleys, gutters, laundromats,
 and deserted areas around Baltimore. There was no dialogue, just a musical soundtrack.

 A young fashion fanatic leaves her house and meets a foot fetishist who gives her a "shrimp job"(toe sucking) in a local park.
 She is then run over by a Portly Bombshell who has been distracted by a hitchhiker who she imagines is nude. From then on
 their day is filled with tragedy. They witness a miracle in a laundromat, are comitted to a mental institution to watch a topless
 tap dance performed by a deranged inmate, become the victims of  Dr. Coat Hanger and his dreadful medical experiments,
 and finally are wounded in a knife fight, only to die a slow death in an actual pigpen.