Oliver Twist lives as an orphan in a workhouse. Hoping for a better future, he flees to London with not a penny in his pockets. However, instead of the new life he hoped for, a time full of dangers and deceit begins. He finds himself caught in the world of crime and is at the mercy of the unscrupulous fence Fagin, for whom he must commit pickpocketing. Oliver must now summon all his strength and hope for luck in misfortune to free himself from the clutches of evil. Charles Dickens' most famous novel about the poignant fate of an orphan boy who, despite the crime and wickedness in the world, manages to preserve the good within himself.