Ragtime is making a comeback in 1951. In Sedalia, Missouri, plans are underway for a ceremony to honor Scott Joplin. Brun Campbell, the old Ragtime Kid, learns of a journal Joplin kept and wants to use it to persuade Sedalia's movers and shakers to set up a ragtime museum. Unfortunately for Brun, author/historian Rudi Blesh is determined to publish