“What am I doing here? How did I get here? What kind of force attracted two worlds to each other and created a tunnel at the point where they touched?” Such questions are asked by the protagonist of the story . But the main question is another: does a person have the right to intervene in the life of another world, if the structure of this world seems to him wrong: here the ideals of humanism do not work, he is cruel and ruthless, he is “wrong”, and he already involves you in his life against your will? The eternal question of "contact" . Only to answer it, the characters of the story have to first get out of this world. This story was first published in the journal Chemistry and Life, in 1976.