A young black pianist becomes embroiled in the lives of an upper-class white family set among the racial tensions, infidelity, violence, and other nostalgic events in early 1900s New York City.
Keywords: 1900s , based-on-novel-or-book , class-differences , jazz-singer-or-musician , new-york-city , new-york-city-history , pianist , piano , political-scandal , public-murder , racial-injustice , racism , radical-politics , ragtime , revenge-killing , social-scandal