Luck does not smile on little Oliver Twist. Having been orphaned as soon as he was born, he was raised in a nursing home without receiving any affection. At the age of nine, he already knows what it's like to starve, suffer abuse and work from sunrise to sunset in a factory. He decides, therefore, to flee to London, looking for a little easier life. The big city, however, is fraught with danger and delinquency. In another of his unforgettable works, Dickens, based on the trajectory of the young Oliver, denounces the difficulties and hardships that befall the poor of a recently industrialized society, without, however, depriving the reader of notes of humor and hope

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