The voice of the Lord. Lem S.

Nevada desert - barren earth, stones and sand.

and the underground research center - the Pentagon’s secret project to decipher the message of another civilization.

in the team involved in work, outstanding, outstanding Mathematician, Professor Hogart, a person who is designed to move a hung project from a dead point.

Who are they - those who live in hundreds and thousands of light years from us? Are we able to understand the message without knowing anything about the sender? And what will bring humanity to a mysterious substance created on the basis of information “subtracted” from the star code - an incredible leap in progress or an unknown danger?