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Our new documentary deals with the working students of the night schools of the 1960s, who fought through the Association of Working Secondary School Students (SEMME). These were working young people, boys and girls, who did not have access to daytime education, as their daily lives were divided between their daily job (which very often exceeded 8 hours) and night schools.

The young proletarians of the night created and organized through SEMME shedding light on a dark period of history through their struggles, which concerned union demands (e.g. free textbooks and reduced prices on transportation tickets), while at the same time participating in the broader student movement of the time putting their touch on the political and social demands.

At the same time, the students, with their spontaneity and the power of their youth, managed to overcome class barriers, became intellectually emancipated and expressed their thirst for knowledge, life and creation through collective actions such as the creation of printed material, theatrical performances, etc.

All this activity unfolds in a reactionary post-war educational environment, where there was no shortage of expulsions for "politically dangerous" activities and pressures for national rationalism.