Brun Campbell, a 15-year-old piano-playing fool, hears Scott Joplin’s Maple Leaf Rag played one 1898 afternoon in Oklahoma City. It’s destiny calling. Brun runs away to Sedalia, Missouri, to persuade Joplin to take him on as a pupil. What Brun doesn’t expect is to trip over the body of a young woman.
When a man who befriended Brun his first nig