After 9-year-old orphan Oliver Twist dares to ask his cruel taskmaster,'' Mr. Bumble, for a second serving of gruel, he's hired out as a apprentice. Escaping that fate, young Oliver falls in with the road urchin known as his criminal coach and the Artful Dodger. When kindly Mr. Brownlow chooses Oliver in, Fagin's evil henchman Bill Sikes plots to kidnap the boy.