Gente do Vale brings together three narratives told in the first person by inhabitants of Vale da Amoreira, where being Portuguese is the fantasy of those who live in Africa, and being African is the fantasy that results from living in Portugal. The narrators Luís Mucauro, Adriano Diouf and Joãozinho da Costa — who performed their own personal experience on stage — are the protagonists of these upbringing stories. They describe episodes from their lives that end at the moment when the accumulated learning gives rise to their individualities.