English writer Diana Wynne Jones is considered the last great storyteller. The worlds of her books are so vivid that they just beg to be shown on screen. Based on her bestseller Howl's Moving Castle, the famous animator Hayao Miyazaki, winner of the Golden Lion, the highest award of the Venice Film Festival, made an animated film of the same name, which gained popularity in many countries. This world is similar to ours in every way, only there is much more magic and witchcraft sent to the stake. But now Halloween is approaching - the most magical time of the year, and strange and then sinister events begin to occur at the boarding school where the children of burned and arrested witches and warlocks study. It turns out that someone in the second “game” is a sorcerer. The school is in a fever, a terrible inquisitor is about to appear, and the children - ugly, shy Nan, Brian, bullied by his classmates, secretive Charles, clever Nirupam - one after another discover that they simply cannot help themselves from doing magic. And all this inevitably must end very badly, but the children manage to get hold of an ancient, but, they say, very powerful spell - “Chrestomanci”...