Sita Valles lived 26 years. She was born in Angola in 1951 and died there under mysterious circumstances in 1977.
She studied Medicine in Lisbon and was a charismatic student leader and a militant of the Portuguese Communist Party (PCP). In the summer of 1975, she decided to return to Angola, which she considered to be her mother country, connecting to a group of people - later nicknamed as “fractionists” - who questioned MPLA’s ideological approach. Accused of being one of the heads of the alleged attempted coup of 27 May 1977, Sita was persecuted and arrested. Rumours hint that she was tortured and died facing a firing squad. In the two years that followed, over thirty thousand people had the same fate, or spent years in prisons and concentration camps. Testimonies of the survivors guide us in the reconstruction, as far as possible, of the life and times of Sita Valles, a life that ended in a traumatic episode of absurd violence, silenced for a long time.