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We present evidence of infall in a circumstellar rotating toroid enshrouding
a luminous star in the massive star-forming region G24.78+0.08.
Besides being one of the rare direct detections of infall in a young high-mass star, our finding stands unique for the simultaneous presence of
three elements in the same massive object: a rotating, collapsing toroid,
a bipolar outflow, ejected along the rotation axis, and a hypercompact
ionized Hii region. The large accretion rate and the existence of a hypercompact
Hii region confirm that the accretion cannot be spherically
symmetric and must occur in a circumstellar disk.
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