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 48

   The first patron arrives with plantation currency, forcing Smoke, Stack, and Annie to debate what the juke will accept.

6. Scene 49

   Smoke insists on real dollars while Stack and Annie argue that the exhausted locals need welcome more than strict business.

7. Scene 50

   Sammie listens from the hallway as Smoke rejects credit in the name of protecting the business.

8. Scene 51

   This scene