After being assigned to internship in the criminal investigation department of the N-sk OMVD, the trainee, a 3rd-year law student, Sergey Sokolov, at the command of his superiors, is tasked with locating a missing underage girl.
During the investigation, the young man finds himself in the past—in Paris, in May 1968, where the student revolution is just beginning. Exactly there, on the barricades of the Latin Quarter, Sergey (now—Serge) finds the missing girl… and new friends who actively take part in all the May events—complicated by the interference of mysterious external forces, which Sergey and that very girl will have to face…