Robert Johnson was born in 1911 in Hazlehurst, Mississippi and dead by 27. Two recording sessions, one guitar, and a sound musicians still can't quite believe came from one man. Up Jumped the Devil doesn't need the myths — the real story is better.

Mabel Davison is a hard-working single mum running a diner and motel in a depressed highway town — and when she thinks a young Black teen has been wrongly picked up for murder, she speaks up. Loud. Heart of a Runaway Girl is carried entirely on Mabel's shoulders, and she earns every bit of it.