Levi Hayes

An orphan endures a harsh life in a workhouse before fleeing to London, where he falls in with a gang of juvenile pickpockets led by the criminal Fagin, and eventually finds a better life, exposing the cruelties of poverty and child labor in Victorian England.

A young boy trying to deal with his mother's heroin addiction befriends a waitress who helps him cope with the tough situation.

The making of Roman Polanski's "Oliver Twist" as seen through the eyes of the film's child actors.