The film looks at the life and lot of three disturbed and lonely people, misfits and outcasts making an uphill attempt to live together in a condemned house in Sydney: a young epileptic Cynthia (Sally Blake), a middle-aged alcoholic Victor (Allan Penny) and a schizophrenic Annie (Denise Otto). When various doctors, social workers and freaks interfere in their lives without real understanding, a dangerous imbalance is created.
Rafferty's Rules was an Australian television drama series which ran from 1987 to 1990 on the Seven Network.
Rafferty's Rules was one of the first programs undertaken by the Seven Network's then new in-house drama unit, going into production in May 1985 as "a 15-part courtroom drama". The program had started out as a pilot episode, recorded in early 1984 with the actor Chris Haywood in the lead role. When the pilot episode was remounted later in 1984, Chris Haywood wasn't available and the lead role was re-cast to John Wood. This second recording was eventually broadcast as the program's first episode.
