The main story of Ryan Coogler's "Sinners" begins on the morning of Saturday, 15 October 1932, with aspiring blues guitarist Sammie Moore (Miles Caton) picking up his guitar at the church of his preacher father Jedidah (Saul Williams), and ends the next morning when Sammie returns to the church, his face scarred and his guitar broken. Jedidah urges him to be saved, but Sammie leaves town. The movie's form echoes James Baldwin's 1953 novel "Go Tell It On The Mountain", which takes place on main character John Grimes' birthday, a Saturday in 1935—except on the following morning, John is "saved" in the Pentecostal church where his father is a preacher. (Andrew Shields, #111Words, 30 May 2025)