When brittle hysteric housewife Peggy Gravel (Mink Stole) comes home from the mental hospital her quiet suburban Baltimore home seems a house of horrors. She is soon convinced that she’s under attack from neighborhood kids and that her five-year-old daughter is pregnant.

When her long-suffering husband comes home she decides he’s trying to kill her and starts beating him wih a lamp. When the poor man feebly begs for help she shrieks, “He’s attacking again!” Finally she coerces her obese maid, Grizelda (Jean Hill), to suffocate him with her sizable bottom and Peggy and Grizelda take it on the lam.

After being hilariously molested by the police and adding to their list of crimes the duo head to the last stop for criminals and social outcasts, Mortville, a bizarre off-the-map shantytown where they find lodging with a predatory lesbian ex-wrestler and her murderess lover.

Ruthless and demonstrably retarded tyrant Queen Carlotta (Edith Massey) rules the kingdom of Mortville with the assistance from a cranky pre-op transsexual (Susan Lowe) and her hot-pants lover (Liz Renay). Carlotta's daughter, Princess Coo-Coo (Mary Vivian Pearce) wants to renounce the throne and marry a nudist garbageman, so the Queen has him killed and enlists Peggy's aid in infecting the kingdom with rabies.

Production designer Vincent Peranio created the entire village with no budget, resulting in a surreal hybrid of school play, CABINET OF DOCTOR CALIGARI and Fairy-Tale Village.

Mentally deficient Edith Massey is phenomenal. Watching her wield ultimate political power will awaken the anarchist in the most autocratic viewer, just as her turn as an imbecilic but suddenly rich cleaning lady in POLYESTER (spouting garbled French) made communism seem almost attractive.