"At some point in October 1975, two young people arrived at Lisbon airport. Alice Barreiro and Fernando Costa reached Portugal's capital after a long-distance flight from Southern Africa. They came from Angola - at the time still a Portuguese colony - their birthplace and homeland, to which they would not return for decades. When their plane landed on the runway in Lisbon, Angola's independence from Portugal, scheduled for November 11, 1975, was imminent. All other Portuguese colonies had already acquired their sovereignty, and thousands of others had departed before Alice and Fernando"--