The wish could exercise its power even when we speak out loud. However, there are some wishes we secretly hope for without anyone knowing. Mi-Rae lives with her grandmother and aunt who doesn’t want to get married, Yi-Rang has divorced parents, and Hyun-Wook has different dream from what his mother wants him to do. Let’s find out what the secret wishes of these children characters. The writer does not fully reveal these diverse family relationships of all these main characters in this book. Instead, the writer delicately shows the variety of family forms so that readers can accept this diversity very naturally. These devices beyond so-called ‘ordinary family’ ideology can be a big help for readers to understand and respect different kinds of family relationships from their own. 

The children in Mi-Rae’s class introduce their own wishes in front of the camera to appear in a TV show, called ‘Wishes’ with expectations. The wish of not studying anymore after being a grown-up, the wish of a pet living as long as possible altogether, the wish all the family members to be happy all the time…… Mi-Rae realizes that all these children have their own wishes no matter how they are serious or tiny, as she can never know how her one-and-only best friend, Yi-Rang, feels while listening to the wishes of her classmates.