When, at the end of 1974, Portugal's 25 April revolution filled streets and mouths with freedom, more than 50 men were imprisoned for political reasons in Tarrafal – the prison that history had closed.

Without trial or formal charges, they waited months for the democracy that the metropolis was slow to bring them.
Who are the last prisoners of the concentration camp? Why were they silenced? How could they be detained in a prison that had already celebrated its end? Above all, why does no one say their names?

Tarrafal, 1975, o Campo do Silêncio tells their stories, one by one. Through words kept in archives and newspapers, through their own voices, through the memories of their widows, sisters, sons and daughters who still wait for an explanation.
Ignored by historiography and official discourse, the Camp that is now being told is one that had no name, but existed.
 
About the author

Sandra Inês Cruz is a journalist. She was a reporter and news anchor at RTP and TVI. As a freelancer, she has made documentaries, travel and science programmes for public television. After writing her master's thesis on the ways in which literature and the press fought censorship in Cape Verde, her doctoral thesis was dedicated to the oblivion of the Tarrafal Camp. The last period of the prison's operation, after 25 April, is one of her areas of interest.