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. Scene 104

   Sammie wounds Remmick with the silver guitar resonator while Smoke stakes him at sunrise, freeing the connected vampires.

8. Just before
9. Scene 106

   Smoke arms himself with wartime weapons and destroys Hogwood's armed crew when they arrive to reclaim the mill.

10. Scene 107

    Sammie reaches the church house still bloodied and dazed from the night's violence.

11. Scene 108

    Jedidiah welcomes Sammie back, but demands that he renounce the blues and drop the guitar neck.

12. Scene 109

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