A poor family in a rundown house where snow falls through the broken roof, there's no coal to heat the pathetic little stove, mother is sick, father sends daughter out to beg. Rejected by other beggars, the girl collapses in the snow…
Georges Méliès
as The Rag-and-Bone Man / Beggar on Crutches / Coal Seller
Rachel Gillet
as Marie, the beggar girl
