Clockwork is a story about a young malchick and his fellow droogs. They go around downtown at night terrorizing shop-keepers and stirring things up with a bit of the old ultra-violence.The plot thickens when the head droog alex is betrayed by his "friends" and then arrested for the slaughter of a woman.He is sent into an un-holy kind of rehabilitation program,and is forcibly subjected to horrible films of rape and death. he is released and seems to be cured............. you are going to have to actually read the book to find out more than that,wankers!