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 32

   Delta Slim recounts being forced to perform for white crowds and losing his friend Rice to a lynching.

5. Scene 33

   Stack recruits the powerful Cornbread and Therise to help build and protect the new juke joint.

6. Scene 34

   The newly assembled crew travels toward the mill as the opening-night operation gathers momentum.

7. Scene 35

   This scene