One night an orphaned ten-year-old girl named Sophie is taken from her orphanage by a benevolent giant named the "Big Friendly Giant". Initially scared of the giant, she soon finds that the titular giant is not like the rest in Giant Country. The other giants including the Bloodbottler and the Fleshlumpeater are twice the size and are also very scary, and go out into the world overnight to gobble up humans. The BFG tells Sophie about his helpful overnight deed where he collects dreams and then travels the world to deliver them to children as they sleep. The bond Sophie and the BFG form begins to annoy the other giants who soon become a bother to the BFG, who normally just keeps to himself. Wanting to do away with the giants, Sophie & the BFG devise a plan to tell the Queen of England about the other giants but they must first find a way to tell her that the giants exist. Based on the novel by Roald Dahl.