剧情介绍
Set in Victorian-era London of 1887, Hetty and her foster brother Gideon are forced to return to the foundling hospital where she was abandoned by her mother as a baby. Hetty and her friends hate the iron-fist regime of Matron Bottomly and gang leader Sheila. Hetty yearns to escape and go in search of her mother.
On the day that Miss Sarah Smith arrives as the orphanage's new governor Ida briefly returns to drop off a letter informing Hetty that she is living at the Ludgate workhouse. Harriet takes the letter to Hetty who runs away to search for her but Sheila informs on her to Matron Bottomley. Lost on the streets of London Hetty is rescued from Mr Grace's gang of teen-aged thieves by flower seller Cissy, a resourceful orphan, who takes Hetty to stay with her and her sickly younger sister Lil. Meanwhile Matron engages the services of shady Mr Bromsden to find Hetty.