Sinners · written by Ryan Coogler · 2025

Grace leaves Lisa in charge of the white customers' store and goes to hear what Smoke needs.

Scene 24 of 110 · ≈ 1 min on screen · Act one

Lisa
Grace

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Begins 26 min into a 2:07 film

The story so farBefore scene 24

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.

Scenes 1–15
The legend and prologue frame Sammie's segregated Delta life under his father's church and the twins' shadow.
Scenes 16–18
Sammie wants the freedom, recognition, and musical life he imagines beyond the plantation.
Just before
Scene 21
The teenager spots thieves at the truck, and Smoke shoots one and cripples the other to make a point.
Scene 22
Smoke arranges medical help and asks Bo to have Grace make signs for the opening.
Scene 23
Lisa crosses the street to summon her mother Grace from the other grocery store.
Scene 24
This scene

24INT. OTHER DELTA GROCERY STORE - DAY

This store is full with WHITE PATRONS. The upkeep is slightly nicer, but the same items are for sale. Lisa approaches her mother, GRACE CHOW (30s, Chinese American), who stands behind the counter finishing up an order for a patron.

LISA

Daddy wants you.

Grace finishes up.

GRACE

Look after the register here now.

Lisa slides into her mother’s place as Grace hands off the bag with a smile. And heads f or the exit, her smile fading from her face.