sammen klarer de mobberen Emil. Da Emil redder hende i en ulykke, opdager hun hans kvaliteter, og de bliver venner. Da to piger fra klassen forsvinder, er Vanja meget i tvivl, om hun skal bruge sit sidste af de tre ønsker på dem, som hun ikke engang kan lide. In English: As Vanja is very ill, she is visited by a fairy who promises to fulfill three wishes. Vanja is 9 years old and a girl in a different way than the other girls in the class, and she is therefore kept out. She would rather be a boy than a girl and dress and behave accordingly. But she becomes friends with Jack, and together they deal with the bully Emil. When Emil rescues her from an accident, she discovers his qualities and they become friends. When two girls from her class disappear, Vanja is very much in doubt about whether she should spend her last of the three wishes on them, which she does not even like.