An orphan,Remi,is entrusted to the Barberin family :the woman (Mere Barberin) is a loving mom,who makes crepes for her fostered kid,her husband is a crude brute ,whose affairs in Paris went wrong and left him an embittered man ,who does not want another mouth to feed;thus he sells Rémy to a busker who takes the boy on all the roads of the country with his troupe of animals :three dogs and a monkey.As they travel through the land ,Rémi meets Arthur ,a disabled boy who lives with his mother ,a wealthy English woman ,Mrs Mulligan ,who live on a boat .He would like to stay with them,at Arthur's insistence,but fate decided otherwise.
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