Ten lovely young ladies, all shapely and beautiful, tired of conventionality of office work and miscellaneous boring jobs, band together to mine gold in the mountains. They are nearly killed inside the mine when an irresponsible dynamite man, “Tom the Atom Bomb” detonates a charge trapping some of the girls under falling debris. Once safe, they pounce on Tom with flailing fists, especially furious since he had attacked one of the girls with intentions of rape. The girls announce they are tired of “busting their asses” the hard way and getting nothing, now they will do it “with class”.
A little later, dressed to the hilt “with class” and a borrowed limousine, they stage a jewelry-store heist with precision timing. They make off with a million dollars in jewels, including a sheik’s collection and his sacred scarab ring from the vaults. The sheik and his man, “Achim”, are put off outside the store by pretty girl decoys, but are soon hot on the trail of the escaping girls, along with the police.
After a quick-change of clothes and vehicles in an alley, the girls stop en route to Las Vegas for a refreshing rest at dusk in an animal park. Here, after loud and ambitious talk, they pair off for a shoot-out with their automatic pistols and revolvers. Instead of spitting out death to each other, the guns spit out water, and we learn that the girls are using water guns in the heists, and amid howls of laughter and shrieks of delight they douse and wet each other down royally.
In Las Vegas they meet furtively at a disco joint with an underworld fence who takes them to his boss’s mansion. Here, Leo tries to take their jewels and trade them for cocaine. They refuse him, and in a violent physical confrontation during which one of the girls, Beth, is accidentally shot and badly wounded, the girls barely escape with their lives. Sheila, a little more vicious than the others, stomps the life out of Leo with her heels after flattening him with a whisky bottle, while the others race to their cars. Sheila now has Leo’s real gun, and a million dollars in “coke” with her, and the other girls are not aware of this.
Later at a roadside park, after a blouse-tearing-bosom-baring fight between Sheila, who now stays constantly drunk with tequila, and the beautiful black girl Carol, two of the girls, Sam and Maggie, take over as leaders of the group. Two of the girls take a new look at the serious developments, and leave, taking Beth with them to get her medical help for her wound. As police drive through the park checking vehicles, our girls panic after narrowly escaping questioning. As they pull out of the park, they are followed at a discreet distance by the sheik’s man, Achim, in his Mercedes. He is determined in his pursuit to regain his master’s jewels and sacred scarab ring.
To acquire a new car, the girls force a man to strip off his clothes in a seclude woods, and with their menacing “pistols”, “cool” him as they drive off in his Mark Four, leaving him naked, wet, and screaming in anger.
The girls stop at a flamenco club after first hiding the jewels in a nearby culvert. While patrons in the club join in with the dancer, keeping time clapping and stomping to the beat of the flamenco rhythms, Sheila offers to sell cocaine to a couple of gentlemen who had bought the girls a drink. Outside in back of the club, Sheila learns in the attempted sale that the men are narcotics officers. Sheila is shot and killed when she levels Leo’s gun at the man. The girls inside, still unaware of the shooting, the real gun and the cocaine, are arrested and taken to a nearby women’s prison facility.
Meanwhile, Achim, who has been constantly following the girls, has recovered all the jewels from the culvert, that is, all except the scarab ring. In prison the girls find their dignities somewhat ruffled. What originally started out as a lark has now become a desperate struggle for survival. Here, they find themselves forced to fight violence with violence. After several weeks of beatings and quirt-whippings by Lesbian guards, and shower-fights with tough female inmates, Sam and Maggie become closer together, and with Jill and Liz and two other new-found friends plan to escape. Using every form of trickery. Physical attacks and enlisting the coordinated assistance of the girls’ boy friends on the outside, the plan gets underway. They incapacitate the guards, trick the cruel section-matron with promise the of sex, and obtain the keys to unlock the cells and successfully escape.
Once outside the prison gates and across the tracks to freedom, the two friends take off with their waiting boy friends, and Sam, Maggie, Jill and Liz are picked up in a Mercedes driven by none other than the sheik’s man, Achim, dependable in pursuit of the master’s ring. Achim tells the girls that he is the manager of a traveling show and that he can arrange for a night’s lodging at the hotel where the troupe stays. The girls are terribly distressed when they ask Achim to drive them to where the jewels were hidden, and find them missing. Sam, having been allowed to wear the ring instead of leaving it with the other jewels, tells the others that she hid the ring in a flowerpot in the flamenco club as they were arrested. Outside the club, Achim’s eyes grow big as he sees the huge and heavily-jeweled ring on Sam’s finger as she returns to the waiting Mercedes and the excitement of the others. Achim must not give himself away and spoil his chances of ever recovering the ring.
That night in the hotel after a scrumptious meal of gourmet delights, Sam and Maggie are terrified as a figure in the darkness steals into their room and attempts to remove the ring from Sam’s finger as she sleeps. Petrified but afraid to call police or security for assistance, the girls sit up for the rest of the night playing cards.
In the morning, Jill and Liz announce to Sam and Maggie that the “manager” bought them nice gifts, but told them there was room only for two girls on the show, so they plan to go home. They called and found Beth had recovered and the others were awaiting their return. In the hallway, Achim is seen listening to an unknown voice coming over the receiver. “You are to escort the girls to the docks, where I will have a proper reception waiting. Avoid police and notoriety.”
In the room, Achim tells the girls he can get them on a cruise yacht to the Mediterranean if they are willing to work. The girls meet the yacht steward on the dock, and are asked if they can dance. They most emphatically agree they can, and are escorted to the lavishly Middle-Eastern decorated dance floor of the pleasure boat. Here they are costumed and awkwardly fake an attempt to belly dance along with the other dancers. A gong is struck by the attending guard and the sheik enters with a policeman. It is the sheik’s yacht after all. Taking a look at the girls, the sheik announces that he has recovered all of his jewels, and the jewels that did not belong to him were returned to their rightful owners, and now that he has recovered his sacred scarab ring, he would drop all charges against the girls. Sam reluctantly hands the sacred ring to the sheik, and the policeman leaves saying, “You no longer need me.” The sheik, in the tongue-in-cheek manner of the entire escapade leads the girls off the dance floor inviting them for a drink to “prepare for whatever lies ahead” as the yacht sails out to sea.
