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Martinique, a former colony that became a French overseas department in 1946, becomes bogged down in an "unwavering attachment to France" as the great breath of independence struggles spread across the world. A poster in shimmering colors appears in the early morning of December 23, 1962 on all the walls of public buildings, schools, police stations, town halls, churches everywhere in Martinique.