The film was released in the United States in a truncated version by American International Pictures under several alternative titles, such as They Call Her One Eye, Hooker's Revenge and The Swedish Vice-Girl.

Years later, while living on her parents' farm as a teenager, Madeleine misses the bus into town, and accepts a ride from a pimp named Tony.

Tony takes the naive Madeleine out for lunch before bringing her back to his home, where he incapacitates her and repeatedly injects her with heroin, causing her to become addicted as a means of forcing her into prostitution.

Donning an eyepatch over her extracted eye, Madeleine is subjected to a never-ending series of demoralizing sexual encounters with both male and female clients.

Finally at her breaking point, Madeleine begins to dispatch the clients who have abused her, first stalking one of the men, and shooting him to death with her shotgun on his front doorstep.

Lindberg confirmed in interviews that the filmmakers used the actual corpse of a woman who had committed suicide< during the film's eye gouging scene,[5][6] a revelation that sparked controversy.

[4] Hardcore pornographic sequences, in particular shots of unsimulated sex, were edited into the scenes in which the protagonist is raped, in order to capitalize on the trend of pornography in Denmark and Sweden, which was being liberalized at the time.

[4] In Daniel Ekeroth's book on Swedish exploitation movies, Swedish Sensationsfilms: A Clandestine History of Sex, Thrillers, and Kicker Cinema, it is revealed that the producers took out a huge life insurance policy on star Christina Lindberg, as real ammunition was used in the action sequences, and that she was asked to inject saline solution during the heroin-use scenes.

[18] It has developed a cult following being a pioneer of the rape 'n' revenge subgenre (a long time before Meir Zarchi's I Spit on your Grave) and the B movies about female vengeance that were made through the 70s and 80s decades, and also as the basis behind Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill character Elle Driver (Daryl Hannah).