In 1932 Mississippi, gifted sharecropper-bluesman Sammie Moore wants to make a life in the blues beyond his preacher father's rules, but the opening night of his cousins' juke joint becomes a siege by a vampire offering the community belonging at the price of its freedom.

1. Scenes 1–15

   The legend and prologue frame Sammie's segregated Delta life under his father's church and the twins' shadow.

2. Scenes 16–18

   Sammie wants the freedom, recognition, and musical life he imagines beyond the plantation.

3. Scenes 19–46

   He leaves the plantation with the twins, enters the wider Delta, and helps build their juke joint.

4. Scenes 47–58

   Sammie learns the blues is sacred, meets the room's people, and tries to claim a place among musicians and lovers.

5. Scene 59

   His performance unites the juke with ancestral music and gives him the belonging and voice he wanted.

6. Scenes 60–100

   The music attracts Remmick's vampires, who take the juke's people and force Sammie to pay for the freedom he tasted.

7. Just before
8. Scene 100

   The vampires breach the juke; the survivors fight back as Grace and Bo burn, Annie is bitten, and Remmick retreats.

9. Scene 101

   Smoke, Sammie, and Pearline flee into the rafters, where Remmick attacks and Stack turns on Smoke.

10. Scene 102

    Sammie escapes through the window to the river while Remmick pursues him through the night.

11. Scene 103

    This scene