This is where the good old Lazarus (Samuel L. Jackson) comes along and finds the poor soul on the side of the road. In this role, Samuel L is a country town God loving man, whose wife has just cheated on him and left him for his brother, so naturally he's angry. He takes it upon himself to fix the poor lass up.

Lazarus takes Rae home and feeds her medicine to clear the cough. After speaking to the black man she had previously been pressed against a mirror by, Lazarus finds out about the girls “sickness” along with her name. He believes that it was God's will for Rae to cross his path and it's his fate to set her right. After a few almost hallucination type sleep walking episodes where Lazarus has to chase Rae around outside, you see him going through his shed and finding some chain.

After a few days of her being in and out of consciousness she wakes up. Lazarus tries to stop her from getting up too fast and wants to explain, but Rae only wants to be out of there. Once she gets up she realises she has a massive chain and padlock around her waist attached to a rusty old radiator and completely flips out. This is my favourite part: she goes flying out the front door in her underwear and barely there T-shirt and gets a few feet out the door when the chain reaches its maximum length and she goes up into the air and is pulled back to the ground by this mass chain! Ha ha! I laughed so hard when she fell flat on her arse! She refuses to come back inside to Lazarus is left with no choice but to pull her back in by the chain; so you see him inside, chain around his hands hauling her skinny arse back inside. She fights with all her strength, holding onto the porch poles, even pushing against the door frame with her feet until she gives up.

A strange relationship develops between them, nothing sexual, even though she does try her best a few times. They talk about morals, relationships, God and the blues as he tries to cure her of her 'wickedness'.

There is a great southern feel to this movie, and if you like all that blues music Samuel L gives you a great treat. He plays guitar and even sings in this movie. I have been told he learned guitar especially for this role and he does it pretty well too. Samuel L I think you're in the wrong business dude! In one scene he's singing to Rae about his wife and how she aborted his child, this is apparently 'The Black Snake Moan'. It's storming outside which makes for a great feel and Rae starts having one of her hallucination type episodes again, grabs onto Lazarus’s leg and asks him to keep singing.