6 x 60 mins

Acclaimed director Ben Young (Hounds of Love) joins the award-winning producers of The Twelve to lift the balaclava on the true story of Brenden Abbott, Australia’s most notorious and ingenious bank robber. Unwanted child to most wanted man, Abbott, a former ward of the state from a broken home, began his crime spree in the wild west of 1980s Australia, robbing a bank at gunpoint and getting away with more money than he’d ever seen. Over more than a decade, he committed multiple bank jobs, flying undetected in and out of Queensland, despite his face adorning newspapers read by passengers sitting beside him. And even when he was caught, he managed to escape maximum security prison. Not once but twice. Traversing Australia’s colourful and unruly past, this character-driven crime drama immerses us in the story of this larger-than-life rogue, revealing a damaged soul on the run from society, from his past, and from himself.