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. Scenes 47–58

   Sammie learns the blues is sacred, meets the room's people, and tries to claim a place among musicians and lovers.

5. Scene 59

   His performance unites the juke with ancestral music and gives him the belonging and voice he wanted.

6. Scene 60

   Remmick, Joan, and Bert arrive outside the opening-night juke after hearing Sammie's music.

7. Scene 64

   Smoke refuses the drifters entry, turning a suspicious visit into the siege of the juke joint.

8. Scene 65

   The survivors choose to stay inside and let Mary investigate the outsiders, entering the vampire problem on their own terms.

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10. Scene 73

    Smoke warns Sammie away from the musician's life and Mound Bayou, but Sammie chooses his own freedom.

11. Scene 74

    Smoke breaks up a loaded-dice fight, restores order, and sends Sammie to fetch Stack.

12. Scene 75

    Sammie finds Stack and Mary together but leaves without interrupting them.

13. Scene 76

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