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. Just before
2. Scene 1

   Annie's prologue traces the healing and dangerous power of musicians who can pierce the veil between life and death.

3. Scene 2

   A burned, injured man reaches a Mississippi farmhouse while an unseen pursuer follows.

4. Scene 3

   Joan and Bert take the injured stranger in for promised gold despite the Klan uniform in their house.

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