A Recap of the Movie 'Sinners' (2025) — Entertainment Interviews

Plot Synopsis written by Michael Lee

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Plot Synopsis

In the year 1932, somewhere in Mississippi, a man named Sammie Moore returns to his hometown, attending his father’s church service with a scar across his face and a broken guitar. Sammie’s father begs him to put down the instrument and repent.

The day before, a pair of identical twins and World War I veterans, named Stack and Smoke, purchase an abandoned warehouse from racists in Hollywood. They pay for the warehouse purchase with money they stole from gangs back in Chicago. Smoke and Stack are then reunited with their cousin, Sammy, and prepare to use the warehouse to open a juke bar, recruiting blues musicians Delta Slim and owners of local stores named Bo Chow and Grace to help out.

Later, Stack then reunites with his ex-girlfriend named Mary, who’s mother recently passed away. Her mother took care of Smoke and Stack when they were little. Mary is upset at Stack for abandoning her there and missing her mother’s service. Smoke also reunites with Annie, his estranged wife. Annie tells Smoke that she prayed and worried for him constantly. Smoke tells Annie he loves her, but wonders why her prayers didn’t save their infant daughter from certain death.

We then travel to the outskirts of town where a man named Remmick is seen bribing Bert and Joan, a couple, for refuge, as he claims he is being chased by a Choctaw gang. The gang arrives and offers to protect Joan from Remmick but she refuses. She later finds out that Remmick is a vampire who already bit her husband Bert.

Smoke and Stack’s new warehouse juke bar opens. The brothers discuss providing discounts to more seedy guests. Suddenly, Remmick, Bert, and Joan arrive after being tantalized by the music Sammy is playing. They are denied entry, but Mary convinces Stack to let them in, as she knows Bert and Joan are on the run and that the jukebar desperately needs paying customers. Remmick attacks and then turns Mary into a vampire when she attempts to flee.

Later, Mary returns to the juke bar and has sex with Stack. She bites him and flees when Smoke arrives. Annie convinces Smoke to lock Stack in a room while Remmick turns other patrons who attempt to leave into vampires.

The group becomes suspicious when Cornbread, the bar's doorman, returns from relieving himself in the woods and repeatedly asks to be invited into the bar instead of walking in like a normal patron. Annie determines that Cornbread, Remmick, and the others are actually vampires.

She also states that there is no way to reverse the transformation of someone who has been turned, even if the person who turned them is killed. The only way to free them is to kill them with a stake through the heart. She then makes Smoke promise to kill her if she is bitten.

Remmick reveals his motive for turning people into vampires is to save them from racial persecution and establish a free community. He exposes Hogwood as a Ku Klux Klan member who planned to kill the brothers and the bar's patrons to reclaim the land.

Remmick's offer to join him is rejected by the survivors. In a desperate move to protect her daughter from Remmick's threat, Grace invites the vampires into the bar, triggering a fight between the survivors and the vampires.

In the pursuing battle, Grace is killed, and Annie is bitten by Stack, forcing Smoke to kill her. Mary, devastated by Annie's death, flees the bar. Delta sacrifices himself for the group's escape, but Sammie is attacked by Remmick while Smoke and Stack fight. Smoke, now protected by Annie's talisman, overpowers Stack.

Outside, Remmick tells Sammie he needs his music to transcend the natural world. Sammie wounds Remmick with his guitar, and Smoke kills Remmick with a stake. The sunrise destroys Remmick and the remaining vampire patrons.

Hogwood and several Klan members arrive to kill the brothers after Smoke sends Sammie home. Smoke kills the Klan members but is mortally wounded in the process. As he dies, he has a vision of Annie and their daughter, who he joyfully embraces.

As the credits roll, we see an elderly Sammie who is now a popular blues musician in the year 1992. He acknowledges that he refused his father’s request to stop making music. Later, Mary and Stack show up at Sammie’s bar. Stack says that Smoke couldn’t kill him but made him promise to leave Sammie alone. Mary and Stack offer Sammie immortality, but he refuses. Sammie then plays them a song from the guitar he had in 1932. He tells Stack that before the carnage, that night was the best of his life. Stack agrees and the film fades to black.