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. Scenes 19–46

   He leaves the plantation with the twins, enters the wider Delta, and helps build their juke joint.

4. Just before
5. Scene 44

   Annie and the women cook while the workers close the walls and finish the juke's food.

6. Scene 45

   As night falls, the twins organize the door, electricity, and entrance for the opening.

7. Scene 46

   The completed juke lights up with food, liquor, and musicians ready for its first night.

8. Scene 47

   This scene