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 51

   Stack persuades Smoke to let the locals pay with what they have on opening night.

6. Scene 52

   Smoke orders Sammie to play, and the first wave of patrons begins to fill the room.

7. Scene 53

   Cornbread admits more local patrons as the juke's opening crowd grows outside.

8. Scene 54

   This scene