In the remote parts of the New Mexico state, in 1947, something that could not sleep not only to scientists, politicians and soldiers, but not eager people for inexplicable mysteries. Archaeologist Nora Kelly after a categorical rejection, which even stands for a place at the Institute, agrees to take the excavation in a place where an unknown object appeared. But what was that? That's what he wants to find out a well -equipped team of billionaire Lucas Tappan, who eventually persuades Nora to cooperate.
But the promising research soon disrupts strange events: the disappearance of a prominent scientist, the discovery of unexpected remains, but above all the finding of an object that evokes great hopes and concern. So it is no wonder that the devil's table will also appear FBI agents - and Nora meets his "old acquaintances" Corrie Swanson and Sheriff Homer Watts. And this is just the beginning, because then the mysterious military organization will be involved in the game that wants to stop the excavations - at all costs.