After 9-year-old orphan Oliver Twist dares to consult his cruel taskmaster,'' Mr. Bumbleto get a 2nd serving of gruel, he has hired outside as an apprentice. Escaping that fate, young Oliver falls in with the road urchin known as the Artful Dodger Fagin, and his mentor. When kindly Mr. Brownlow chooses Oliver in, Fagin's evil henchman Bill Sikes plots to kidnap the boy.