Havana. 1993. Cuba is in the midst of the 'Special Period,' a massive economic crisis that followed the collapse of the USSR. Empty store shelves, power outages, and unemployment are commonplace. Julia, a math teacher, believes that finding a document proving that the telephone was invented not by Alexander Graham Bell, but by Antonio Meucci in Havana, will change her life. Together with a group of like-minded people driven by a quixotic goal, Julia must unravel a tangled family history during a time of national despair in Cuba.

'Havana, Year Zero' is a passionate and ironic novel, generously flavored with Cuban flavor, in which the story of the destinies of people trying to survive an era of change is skillfully woven into a gripping detective investigation.