Nobody's Boy: Remi

- Season 1

(1977)

Remi: The boy from Chavanon's village is the presentation of the series and shows us the early days of Remi living with his mother in a modest village in Central France.

After a happy "Thanksgiving Day" Remi finds out that the "father" he loved and was eager to meet, does not love him back and seems to be a cruel, rude and insensitive man.

After being sold by his cruel adoptive father, Remi leaves Chavanon with Mr. Vitalis, along with his three kind dogs and a small and funny monkey.

8-year-old Remi walks many miles in the company of Mr. Vitalis, his dogs and monkey. The beauty of the landscapes he sees and the new things he learns help him overcome the difficulties.

The story of Rémi's first performance; his first training and debut as an actor in front of the people.

When Mr. Vitalis saw Rémi holding a book upside down, he understood that he hadn't been taught how to read and agreed to teach him.

Hearing Vitalis sing, Remi decides to learn music and sing to do it in the show.

Remi and Vitalis arrive in Bordeaux, a great French city. Due to the crowd Remo gets lost and finds company.

The company arrives in Pau, which is a resort town for the rich. There he meets Grace and they become close friends.

The people of Toulouse enjoy Vitalis and Remi's traveling theater but there is a policeman who is looking for legal problems for them to act.

The injustice of the perfidious policeman leads Vitalis to jail. While awaiting trial, Remi continues to act.

Vitalis is still in jail and Remi has no choice but to wander through the street show encountering rough people.

The group comes to perform in a town but the hunger is getting bigger. Vitalis imprisoned and Remi finds a ship called the Swan.

Mrs. Milligan invites Remi to the Swan and to travel with them on the river and is very happy. Yet the lady's son always seems sad.

Remi gets used to life on the ship and entertains Arthur with performances alongside the animals to cheer him up.

A great storm hits the ship while Arthur suffers ill in bed.

On the ship, Mrs. Milligan asks Remi to stay with them as part of the family but Remi thinks of Mr. Vitalis and does not want to leave him.

Remi continues to travel through the villages of France acting through the villages after leaving the ship.

On their way to Paris, our protagonists go through different villages, while winter looms over them.

The night falls with a heavy snowfall and taking refuge in a cabin they believe they are safe from the dangers of the night and the wolves that lurk. They do not know that the tragedy is coming.

The protagonists arrive at a village where they are welcomed by a family and they correspond taking them out of a hurry.

After the recent tragedy that the protagonists have suffered on their way to Paris, in a snowy town a worse misfortune awaits them.

They finally arrive in Paris and now the challenge is to get a job. The contempt of some people is worse.

Remi is alone in Paris where he is assaulted by thugs who want his money.

Vitalis leaves Remi in the care of a friend of him to spend the winter while he looks for work. But that new master who takes care of other children, mistreats and exploits them.

Remi and Vitali have to spend the night outdoors in search of shelter. They embark on the road outside of Paris but there is nowhere to take shelter from the snowstorm that has begun. The tragedy arrives.

After the horrible and tragic night, Remi is found by a family that takes him in like a son. An inspector knows the story of Mr. Vitalis as a great opera singer.

Held in by the family of peasant florists, little by little, Remi regains his joy after the tragedy suffered in his life.

Time passes and Remi feels more and more joyful with his new family. The flower business is doing well but they have debts. The tragedy again comes quickly.

The adversity that has come to the family means that the economic problems have no solution other than the embargo and the jail. The children are sadly separated.

On his journey to visit his now-dispersed new family, Remi meets his old friend Mattia, the rogue, in Paris, who gets him out of trouble.

Remi and Mattia go through the villages and at a wedding they get a lot of money. They decide to plan their future.

Remi and Mattia find a circus and a monkey runs away with them and the owners don't seem to care. They get to see Alexis who has had a work accident in the mine.

Due to Alexis's accident, Remi replaces him at the coal mine. Everything is going well until a terrible storm raises the water level of the river that threatens the mining shafts.

The desperate search of the miners sunk in the mine by the flood continues. Inside Remi and his companions survive.

Recovered from the serious accident Remi and Mattia leave the mining town. They suddenly realize that their musical knowledge is incomplete and they look for a music teacher.

Mattia leaves the music teacher and joins Remi again. They continue their show to earn money and buy a cow for Remi's mother, but there is a lot of competition going on.

Remi and Mattia head to the foster mother's house from which she left so long ago. They go with the gift of a cow like the one that disappeared. And the meeting between mother and son occurs.

Remi's adoptive mother tells him that his real parents are looking for him. Jerome, Remi's evil adoptive father goes to Paris to make inquiries because they offer money. Children also go to Paris.

Remi and Mattia arrive in Paris looking for Jerome but cannot find him. When they do, he is very ill.

Before dying, Gerome tells Remy that his real parents are English and live in London. Children to England head to and meet real parents. But really are they?

Remi and Mattia already know that the alleged parents are impostors. Now they want to know what they are up to to pose as Remi's parents.

After discovering the impostors parents, the children find out who the real parents of Remi are but they are taken prisoner by the evil ones.

Remi manages to escape from the bandits but Mattia is taken prisoner and they try to sell him.

The Discolls send their henchmen in search of Remi to catch or kill him. On the run Mattia almost drowns and Remi finds an old man who knows of his real parents.

Remi is taken prisoner by the police along with the Driscoll gang and the police do not believe that he is not the son of the bandit. In France, Mrs. Milligan makes inquiries.

Remi is taken by train to a prison but his friends hatch a plan to free him. In France Mrs. Milligan continues to inquire about Remi.

In their flight from the police Remi and Mattia get a ticket on a boat to France that belongs to a friend of Bob's. But at night a terrible storm breaks out at sea.

In France children need to travel to meet Mrs Milligan and to earn money they have to work on a farm. Remi's two mothers know each other and have to find him too.

Remi and Mattia arrive at their mother's house and she tells them that Mrs. Milligan is no longer there but in Switzerland to try to cure Arthur and Lissette's speechlessness.

Remi is already with his mother and even Mattia is adopted. But - The whole story is not over yet finally happy.