The story is about a young orphaned boy raised by underground cave-dwelling trash collectors who tries to save his friends from an evil exterminator, the town's villain, Archibald Snatcher.

Eggs attempts to protect the Boxtrolls from exterminator Archibald Penelope Snatcher. The voice cast includes Ben Kingsley, Elle Fanning, Toni Collette, Nick Frost, Richard Ayoade, Tracy Morgan ...