At the Pentagon, D.I.A. director Colonel Anderson briefs the UN Ambassador and the Space Force Commander on classified extraterrestrial encounters. The basement of the United Nations becomes the stage for a clandestine meeting between Earth’s representatives and three races of extraterrestrial beings. Then, behind closed doors in Congress, a House Intelligence Subcommittee engages in debate about the disclosure of what the government knows. But no one really knows how the aliens will respond.