Four junkies who knew her leave the share house to avoid police, and spend 24 hours searching the streets of Melbourne for good quality heroin and excitement.

[6]Writer Helen Garner has a small role as a speed-addled woman named Jo.

Garner starred in the film shortly before she published Monkey Grip (1977), which is set in a similar milieu of communal drug use.

[7] The Commonwealth film censors initially banned the movie but allowed it to be released with an "R" rating provided the title was changed from Pure Shit to Pure S.[1] Deling later said that the film "played two weeks at Melbourne’s Playbox and had a short Sydney run … but very few people got to see it, and we didn’t make a cent from it.

"[8] The movie was polarising, with the critic of the Herald calling it "the most evil film that I've ever seen"[9] but others such as Bob Ellis championing it.