Disappearing castle.

Sophie, a young milliner, is turned into an elderly woman by a witch who enters her shop and curses her. She encounters a wizard named Howl and gets caught up in his resistance to fighting for the king.

Charles Dreyfus, who has finally cracked over inspector Clouseau's antics, escapes from a mental institution and launches an elaborate plan to get rid of Clouseau once and for all.

From a riddle-speaking butterfly, a unicorn learns that she is supposedly the last of her kind, all the others having been herded away by the Red Bull. The unicorn sets out to discover the truth behind the butterfly's words. She is eventually joined on her quest by Schmendrick, a second-rate magician, and Molly Grue, a now middle-aged woman who dreamed all her life of seeing a unicorn. Their journey leads them far from home, all the way to the castle of King Haggard.

The film is a contemporary piece and seeks to explore the relationship between grandfather and grandson. Initially set in a set idyllic English garden, the grandfather notices a unicorn drawing by the child, which, in turn, rekindles memories of a long forgotten past. Seeking an affinity his grandson, the grandfather revisits this fabled world, but fate has other plans which demonstrates that human life and mythical entities have an ethereal beauty.