 Noncontextual hidden-variables theories that reproduce the predictions of quantum mechanics are ruled out by the Bell-Kochen-Specker theorem. A natural question arises as to the possibility of a contextual hidden-variables theory on which the unavoidable contextuality is restricted to local dependencies. Is it possible to have a  theory on which the outcome of an experiment performed in some spatial region \(A\) is determined by the complete state of a system in a way that does not depend on the disposition of experimental apparatus at a distance from \(A\)?