Germany, 1953. Corrupt gang of Soviet officers appropriated jewelry seized from repressed citizens. The officers take the young scout Terekhov and collector Avdeev, who recently left not so distant places, to guard the myriad wealth.

Careerist Katya "Palna" Schwimmer, a hunter for rich bachelors Olga "Lelya" Rzhevskaya and an ideal housewife Masha "Bobylych" Bobylkina. Everyone is looking for their own female happiness: one in office novels, the second on the Ruble, and the third – and at all with pop idol Serega Zvonarev.

In the center of the story is the fate of a student of the Yaroslavl Technical University, Sergei Ryabinin, who decided to systematize the knowledge of wandering gypsies and turn palmistry into an independent science. To do this, an ambitious young man chooses a non-trivial path. For most of the series, he travels through morgues, hospitals and cemeteries, trying to find out the cause of their death through the lines located on the hands of the dead. Among the piles of corpses, the young talent manages to find even... his future wife…