1953. After Stalin's death, there was more work in MUR. A new era had arrived - hundreds of criminals were released. The spirit of permissiveness swept across Moscow. Aleksandr Ivanovich Smirnov, the head of the operational group of the first department of MUR, has a lot of work - new murders and robberies occur in the city every day... Film adaptations of Anatoly Stepanov's novels "The Concerns of the Fifty-Third", "The Wooden Samovar", "The Pilgrims' Halt".