Two girls with a particularly rare skill live in the tranquil, ‎picturesque town of Watchtower Harbor. Sophie and Julia have the ‎ability to hear the wishes of youngsters who are missing their loved ‎ones while they are deployed and transmit their messages ‎throughout the world.‎
‎ Jessica Beck is a third-grade teacher. She observes Jimmy ‎Andrews, one of her students, is depressed one day. She is very ‎aware of what he is going through. Jimmy's brother is currently ‎serving in Afghanistan. When she was a child, her brother was ‎stationed in Bosnia. She discovered a unique way to communicate ‎with her brother by sending wishes to the universe in the hopes that ‎something or someone would hear her and pass them on to him.‎
‎ Ms. Beck takes a risk and informs Jimmy about wishing on the ‎universe. His favorite teacher, he says, is cuckoo Cocoa Puffs. But ‎what else can Jimmy do? He is desperate to hear from his brother ‎and will go to any length to do so. He makes his wish. ‎