Six months on in the world of Remnant, we rejoin team RWBY in the premiere of RWBY Volume 4. Salem assigns her council and plots their next move. Ruby, Jaune, Nora and Ren fight a dangerous new Grimm in the forests.
Yang still deals with the events of the battle but then finds some enjoyable company and wise words from her father. Team RNJR travels to the next town with surprising ease, is luck on their side?
Blake returns home to her family in Managerie, but Sun struggles to impress her father. Even here Blake struggles to outrun her problems, as the White Fang interrupts their reunion. Tyrian begins his hunt for Ruby.
Qrow is still recovering from his injury from the previous fight, as he informs team RNJR about the growing threat of Salem. Blake reconnects with her father.
As Weiss and Yang continue their training, Blake and Sun hunt down the White Fang spy and Team RNJR must decide the best path to travel around a mountain in order to find help for Qrow.
Being so close to their home town of Kuroyuri brings back painful memories for Ren and Nora, but with Qrow's condition worsening by the second, both halves of Team RNJR must keep moving forward.
As Cinder continues her training with the maiden's power, Tyrian returns to explain his defeat to Salem. Weiss attempts to escape her father with Klein's help, Blake resolves to reclaim the White Fang, and Ren sees a nightmare from his past.
Team RNJR battle against the Grimm that destroyed Kuroyuri, but Ren's anger causes him to lose control mid-battle and put his friend's lives in danger.