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 36

   The crew reaches the mill, unloads the cars, and begins transforming the abandoned building.

5. Scene 37

   Smoke, Stack, Sammie, Cornbread, Annie, and Slim carry equipment into the mill.

6. Scene 38

   Sammie siphons river water for the juke joint.

7. Scene 39

   This scene