<p>Orphan Ettie Shaw is penniless and homeless on the streets of London when she is spotted by her older brother Joe.<br>Joe has fallen in with a notorious pickpocket gang run by a man called Fagin, and Ettie has to disguise herself as a boy so she can come back with him to Fagin's lair.<br>At first Ettie is able to help out with mending and other domestic jobs, but when one of the other boys falls ill, Fagin demands that Ettie go out pickpocketi...