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.

9. Scene 73

   Smoke and Sammie argue over whether music is a respectable calling or the life that makes Sammie feel free.

10. Scene 76

    Smoke catches Mary drinking Stack's blood; she survives his gunfire and declares that the whole room will be killed.

11. Scene 82

    Stack dies in Smoke's arms, and Smoke names him the best thing about himself.

12. Just before
13. Scene 84

    Annie explains that Stack is no longer himself and that the vampires must be kept outside.

14. Scene 85

    Smoke locks the mill, announces Stack's death, and watches Bo leave to bring Grace's car around.

15. Scene 86

    Cornbread returns changed, tries to enter without an invitation, and is shot by Smoke when Annie identifies him as a vampire.