Sexo, mentiras e historia cientfica convergen en La Habana en el ao 1993.
"Era como si hubiramos alcanzado el punto crtico mnimo de una curva matemtica. Tiene presente una parbola? El cero de abajo, el hueco, el abismo. Hasta ah llegamos."Corre el ao 1993. Cuba est en lo ms lgido del Perodo Especial, un profunda crisis econmica tras el colapso del bloque sovitico.Para Julia, una profesora de matemtica que detesta ensear, La Habana est en su ao cero: el punto ms bajo, camino a ninguna parte. Desesperada por tomar las riendas de su vida, Julia se une a Euclides, su colega y ex amante, para emprender la bsqueda del documento que compruebe que el telfono fue inventado por Antonio Meucci, en La Habana. Creen que esta es la respuesta para proteger su reputacin y darle a Cuba un nuevo propsito.A partir de este punto cero, Julia da inicio a una investigacin que la acercar a dos hombres que prometen guiarla hasta el documento, y que la ver involucrada en un enredado misterio de pasin, legados familiares y las complejidades de cmo la gente encuentra maneras de sobrevivir en un pas que vive la ms terrible de sus crisis.
"It was as if we'd reached the minimum critical point of a mathematical curve. Imagine a parabola. Zero point down, at the bottom of an abyss. That's how low we sank."
The year is 1993. Cuba is at the height of the Special Period, a widespread economic crisis following the collapse of the Soviet bloc.For Julia, a mathematics lecturer who hates teaching, Havana is at Year Zero: the lowest possible point, going nowhere. Desperate to seize control of her life, Julia teams up with her colleague and former lover, Euclid, to seek out a document that proves the telephone was invented by Antonio Meucci in Havana, convinced it is the answer to secure their reputations and give Cuba a purpose once more.From this point zero, Julia sets out on an investigation to befriend two men who could help lead to the document's whereabouts, and must pick apart a tangled mystery of sex, family legacies and the intricacies of how people find ways to survive in a country at its lowest ebb.
Sex, lies, and scientific history collide in 1993 Havana.
It was as if we'd reached the minimum critical point of a mathematical curve. Imagine a parabola. Zero point down, at the bottom of an abyss. That's how low we sank.
The year is 1993. Cuba is at the height of the Special Period, a widespread economic crisis following the collapse of the Soviet bloc.For Julia, a mathematics lecturer who hates teaching, this is Year Zero: the lowest possible point. But a way out appears: the search for a missing document that will prove the telephone was invented in Havana, secure her reputation, and give Cuba a purpose once more. What begins as an investigation into scientific history becomes a tangle of sex, friendship, family legacies, and the intricacies of how people find ways to survive in a country at its lowest ebb.