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.
Two midnight sanitation workers stumble into an unexpected problem when a teenage girl shows up at their usual dump site with a strange request. Makina, a young witch stranded in London for a year-long human studies program, needs them to dispose of something unusual: her spell book. The catch is that she wants to burn bridges with her entire magical identity, not just toss out a textbook. What seems like a simple favor quickly spirals into something far more complicated. The book refuses to be discarded like ordinary trash, resisting every attempt at destruction through supernatural means. As Shout and Crunchy dig deeper into why this girl is so desperate to abandon her witchy heritage, they realize her request involves stakes neither of them anticipated. The film balances quirky humor with genuine stakes, following these unlikely allies as they navigate the intersection of two worlds: the mundane reality of nighttime sanitation work and the strange, stubborn rules of magic that refuse to stay buried. It's a film that finds humor and heart in the spaces between the everyday and the impossible.