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. Just before
4. Scene 20

   Smoke orders food and supplies from Bo Chow for the juke joint's opening-night crowd.

5. Scene 21

   The teenager spots thieves at the truck, and Smoke shoots one and cripples the other to make a point.

6. Scene 22

   Smoke arranges medical help and asks Bo to have Grace make signs for the opening.

7. Scene 23

   This scene