1INT. DARK VOID - NIGHT

A MATCH STRIKES once, twice, and IGNITES on the third try, illuminating a WOODCUT IMAGE of a guitarist.

ANNIE (V.O.)

There are legends of people born

with the gift of making music so

true, that it can pierce the veil

between life and death.

Faces cry out to the guitarist from the dark and light portions of the woodcut.

ANNIE (V.O.)

Conjuring spirits from the past

and the future.

Another woodcut. Anc ient Irishmen play music and dance around a fire. Faces look upon them from the blaze.

ANNIE (V.O.)

In ancient Ireland, they were

called fili.

In this woodcut, a Choctaw man captivates a family around a fire, as more faces listen from beyond the darkness.

ANNIE (V.O.)

In Choctaw land, they called them

firekeepers.

In another, a West African man plays a Kora for a group summoning a legion of faces i n the night sky.

ANNIE (V.O.)

And in West Africa they are called

griots.

In the final Woodcut, a Bluesman plays for a group of people in a JUKE JOINT.

ANNIE (V.O.)

This gift can bring healing to

their communities.

A FIGURE with RED EYES peers in the window.

ANNIE (V.O.)

But it also attracts evil.

PROLOGUE

CHYRON- CLARKSDALE, MISSISSIPPI, 1932