1963. The country is recovering from a nuclear war. At one of the construction sites in the anomalous zone, the “Ring” object, communication suddenly disappeared. What is it - the influence of external forces, the human factor or experiments of the ultra-complex self-learning machine “Setun”, which supervises the work? A commission headed by Major Thor Igorevich Karibskiy is sent to find out the reasons. The major will have to make a difficult decision - the most important thing in his life. What miracle did a man show to an unexpected enemy? Who and why needed to conduct monstrous experiments on people? And can a machine become a person? Read about all this in the science fiction story “The Incident.”