Inmates fight, pair off, try suicide and attempt escape at a British reform school for girls.

Mai Zetterling's irreverent adventures of the lesbian prisoners known as the "Hellhole Bitches" contains such deathless lines as "I love you Eva, I fuckin' love you" (which booms out over the prison quadrangle) and "Give us a lick not a prick" - one of the best women behind bars movies ever made and unavailable for many years, Scrubbers is pulpy, poetic and political.