Growing up is never easy - especially if your name happens to be David Copperfield. Orphaned as an infant, David must suffer the privations and cruelties of his evil stepfather, Mr. Murdstone - who packs David away to a workhouse at the age of ten! A trusting but vulnerable boy and practically alone in the world, David finds himself time after time at the mercy of a rogue's gallery of characters: the dashing but deceitful steerforth, the detestable clerk Uriah Heep, and, last but not least, the beautiful but ditzy Dora. With friends like these it's a miracle that David grows up at all!