A school-broadcast project to create a masked idol leads to a juvenile story about a boy who secretly loves singing in a female voice and a solitary girl. Through song, secrecy, and first love, it explores the fear and longing involved in letting someone know who you are.

Around the secret identity of a mysterious songstress, hidden wishes and first love begin to move.

This collection of criticism examines instability of the self, social precarity, and possible exits in contemporary children's literature. It rereads childhood not as a fixed state but within changing relationships and the atmosphere of the times.

In an age when stable stories are hard to see, it reads the instability of self and society reflected in children's literature.