Lord Loam has modern ideas about his household, he believes in treating his servants as his equals - at least sometimes. His butler, Crichton, still believes that members of the serving class should know their place and be happy there. But when the Loam family are shipwrecked on a desert island with the self-reliant Crichton and lady's maid Tweeny, the class system is put to the test.
A modern-day retelling of Arnold Bennett's novel, in which a Treasury official with a reputation for fiscal prudence is left a great deal of money and has no idea how to cope with sudden personal wealth.
Na Inglaterra vitoriana, o jovem órfão de nove anos, Oliver, é mandado para um reformatório, onde é castigado e perseguido. Ele encontra em Fagin (o mentor e chefe de uma quadrilha de jovens ladrões de Londres) a falsa ilusão da liberdade.
