BAD GIRLS GO TO HELL

Meg is a Boston housewife, who is sexually assaulted by a janitor at her apartment building. She escapes when he hears someone coming, but he leaves a note under her door threatening to tell her husband if she doesn't come to his apartment. She goes and attempts to pay him off, but he attacks her. Killing him, she flees to New York City. Upon arriving in New York, she changes her name to Ellen Green and pretends to be from Chicago.

She meets a seemingly friendly man and accompanies him home. While there, he rebukes her for attempting to hold his hand and later flies into a rage upon discovering that she has set out alcohol for them to drink. Guzzling the whiskey, he attacks her, beating her with a belt. She escapes while he sleeps off his drunkenness. Meeting a strange woman, she accompanies her to her friend Della's place. That night, the two have sex. The next day, "Ellen" decides to leave. Della begs her to stay and says she loves her. "Ellen" says she loves Della as well and that is why she must leave. She then moves into a sleazebag hotel, where the landlord attacks her, so she moves once again, taking a job as a companion to an older lady. It turns out that old woman's son is a detective working on "Ellen's" case. The detective confronts her and she breaks down, only to wake up screaming. It was all a dream.

Consoled by Ted, she goes about her day only to find her dream repeating in real life as the janitor again attacks her.

Meg's harrowing journey is revealed to be a dream, but she awakens to find the nightmare beginning again in reality.

The film deploys a cyclical, nightmarish structure, blurring the lines between dream and reality to emphasize Meg's inescapable trauma. By ending with the attack repeating as she wakes, Wishman delivers a bleak commentary on the persistence of abuse and the impossibility of escape for women in Meg's world. It's a final gut-punch that leaves viewers questioning what, if anything, was real.