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The first collection of short stories by Naomi Ishiguro, the only daughter of Nobel Prize winner Kazuo Ishiguro, made her debut in the literary world at the age of 28. The work takes themes of freedom, escape, loneliness, cowardice, and psychological traps, revealing that behind the seemingly bright and gentle personalities of young people in modern metropolitan areas, there is a deep sadness hidden behind them. The author uses his sensitivity and delicateness and bold and rich imagination to blur the boundary between reality and fairy tales, perfectly captures the interaction between the heart and reality, and highlights the fragility and strength of the human spiritual world. This is a collection of short stories, composed of nine stories full of whimsy: a mouse catcher, under the mysterious summons of the palace, is involved in a corrupt struggle for the throne; a newlywed couple falls into unspeakable troubles due to the arrival of a large teddy bear that is eyeing the tiger; a boy obsessed with the universe uses his imagination to create a vortex representing the "unknown" in the storage room; a female musician, and The birds on the flat-roofed house form a friendship, and they lead her on a strange journey; for a company employee, as long as she drinks coffee, the world in front of her will change... The author Naomi Ishiguro uses her rich and bold imagination to blur the boundaries between reality and fairy tales. Using the themes of loneliness, cowardice, escape, and traps, she explores "what is true freedom" and leads readers to wander and heal in the world of literature.