It is 1815 and Jean Valjean just got out on parole from a long prison stretch. He resorts to stealing from a kindly bishop even though the man fed him and gave him a place to sleep. He is caught and sent back to face the bishop but is surprised when he backed up his alibi and urged him to use the stolen silver to build a new life for himself. Valjean is so moved by this charity that he swears to change his ways.
Factual error: In the scene where Javert commits suicide, you can see the back side of Notre Dame in the background. However the river Seine does not flow in the direction as shown in the following scenes. The river Seine flows from the east to the west in Paris, not the other way round.
