Jessica and Elisabet learn a secret language from their father called Ithig. Jessica gives the secret language to a friend and now it is not a secret anymore--in fact the whole school knows it.
When Jessica Wakefield, always the center of attention, hurts her ankle, she feels left out of things, like Pamela Jacobson, a girl with a heart condition.
Elisabet collaborates on a school play with her friend Sof?a Rizzo, even though her parents tell her to stay away from Sof?a, whose brother has been in reform school.