Oliver Twist's life has been a hard and desperate one. With his mother dying during his birth, and having no idea who his father was, Oliver has spent his first nine years struggling to survive in a world that has little pity for a poor orphan like him. After Oliver gets involved with the nefarious Fagin and the sinister Bill Sikes, the boy is wounded during a burglary. Oliver he is rescued by Sikes' intended victims, the young Rose Maylie, and her guardian, Mrs. Maylie. At last, the boy finds a loving home and people who care for him. But how long will Oliver's happiness endure, especially when Fagin begins to conspire with a mysterious stranger with a link to the boy's past in an effort to ruin Oliver's reputation and lead the boy down the path to a life of crime?