Last seen dangling from a balloon drifting across the Sydney skyline, Cleaver Greene (Richard Roxburgh) crashes hack to earth--literally and metaphorically, when he's propelled through a harbourside window into the unwelcoming embrace of chaos past.

Fleeing certain revenge, Cleaver hightails it to a quiet country town, the reluctant member of a congregation led by a stern, decent reverend and his flirtatious daughter. Before long, Cleaver's being chased back to Sin City.

But Sydney has become a dark place: terrorist threats and a loss of faith in authority have seen it take a turn towards the dystopian. When Cleaver finally emerges, he will be accompanied by a mistress of the black arts, navigating a yellow brick road leading straight to our dark corridors of power.

Twisting and weaving the stories of the ensemble of characters we've grown to love over three stellar seasons, Series 4 of Rake continues the misadventures of dissolute Cleaver Greene and casts the fool's gaze on all levels of politics, the legal system, and our wider fears and obsessions.