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- 1942. In Martinique facing starvation, Rose, a young teacher sacked by the Vichy regime, keeps house for a wounded German officer. She plans to spy and help the resistance but is torn between her beliefs and her love for a French soldier.
- Having been sent away to study in France when he was only 10, 30 years later Patrick is a renowned historian.
- The ghost of a music teacher pushes a young mechanic to start a career in music.
- Martinique, a former colony incorporated as part of France in 1946, is mired in its 'unfailing attachment to France' while the winds of change fill the sails of independence struggles all over the world. The Algerian war, raging on French soil, forces people to choose sides, to engage. December 23, 1962. At dawn, a bright, colorful poster is plastered across the walls of all public buildings, schools, police stations, town halls and churches all over Martinique. The poster, massively distributed under cover of darkness, bears a simple slogan in capital letters: MARTINIQUE FOR THE MARTINIQUANS!
- Martinique, 14 February 1974. At Chalvet, in the north of Martinique, one hundred laborers on strike are sprayed with tear gas, surrounded by fourteen trucks of mobile guards, grounded by a helicopter shooting at sight. The versions differ and are discussed. This strike is suspected of being led by leftists, who, usurping the place of the unions, are treating the economic and political stability by manipulating the peasantry. One dead, four seriously wounded by gunfire and dozens injured put an end of the story of the strike.
- Olympe arrives with her family of minor nobility on the island. Seduced by Mandingo, she acquires him despite Théophile's opposition. Koyaba shows his strong personality very quickly. Rosalie, a jealous slave, casts a spell on him.
- Rosalie gets sentenced to death by hanging for helping in abortion. Adèle is getting ready for new life with her son. Amédée helplessly watches his new wife dying on the gallows.