The now 90 year old Sophie decided to set off to seek her fortune, because she can’t stay home looking like that now can she?  This puts her directly into the path of the Wizard Howl, the fiend who lives in a moving castle and eats young girls’ hearts.  Or so all the aunts of Sophie’s acquaintance claim.  Reasoning logically that if Howl is interested in young girls she shall be quite safe Sophie moves into his castle as the new cleaning woman.  She shortly discovers that in addition to quite the least tidy castle in the world she must deal with spells, scarecrows, curses, green slime, love, mandrake roots, fire demons, shooting stars, mending and great quantities of dirt.  It’s really quite enough to make her mad as a hatter.