It puts you on the night shift and keeps you there. Shout and Crunchy are trash throw away-ers, guys whose whole job is making things disappear after the city goes to sleep, and the film treats that as a real occupation with real rules rather than a gag. Then Makina turns up, sixteen, sent to London for a year to learn how to be a proper bride, and instead of studying she hunts down the two men who dispose of things and asks them to take her Witch's Book. That request is the whole engine: she doesn't want to be a witch, she wants to be a normal girl, and the book refuses to be thrown away. No spectacle, no fireworks, just a quiet after-hours story about how hard it is to get rid of the thing that defines you.

Shout and Crunchy make their living as trash disposers who work in the middle of the night. Makina, a 16-year-old witch, has traveled to London in the human world to spend a year learning how to become a proper bride. She seeks out the pair and pleads with them to get rid of her Witch's Book. What she really wants is to give up being a witch and live as an ordinary girl, and the book stands in her way. Getting rid of it, however, turns out to be far from simple.