Born into a world that wanted nothing to do with him, a young boy enters life in the most dismal of circumstances: a workhouse where survival is the only ambition and compassion is in shorter supply than the watery gruel served at mealtimes. His mother dies within moments of his birth, leaving him nameless and alone. What follows is a childhood marked by hunger, neglect, and the casual cruelty of those who see him as nothing more than an inconvenient mouth to feed. When he dares to ask for more food, this simple act of desperation sets in motion a series of events that will thrust him from one harsh situation to another.
 
From the calculated indifference of parish authorities to the grim world of an undertaker's establishment, the boy discovers that society has little patience for orphans who refuse to quietly disappear. Yet through beatings,  insults, and the grinding machinery of institutional poverty, something in him remains unbroken. His journey takes him through the darkest corners of Victorian England, where he encounters characters both menacing and kind, each one pulling him closer to truths about his own mysterious origins.

This is the story of Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens' unforgettable tale of innocence tested by a world determined to crush it. A story that asks whether goodness can survive when everything around it is designed to destroy hope.