The turn of the century on a giant ocean liner - an African American ship's coal jockey goes searching under tables and chairs in the dining hall, looking for valuables left behind. He comes across a small but very exceptional valuable...a caucasian infant.
The gentleman assumes the child was meant for him and takes him under his wing. He becomes the infant's father, teaching him to read by having him read the horse race results to him from a newspaper and rocking him to sleep in the ship's hull. He names him "Danny Boodman T.D. Lemons 1900" - or 1900 for short.
The ability that 1900 has to take over a room is astonishing. He can capture a person's personality and set theme music to it. He is a "virtuoso" - needing nothing more than someone to hum a tune for a moment before he's writing the music himself better than anyone could have imagined.
1900 has never left the ship. He's a man without a country, without a home - other than the S.S. Virginia. So often people have asked him if he ever intends to leave the ship - but 1900's life is anything but ordinary. And lives out of the ordinary generally do not lend themselves to the same types of joys and sorrows that we understand. 1900 lets one friend in - Max. Max ends up being the only one to remember 1900 when it's time for the S.S. Virginia to be decommissioned. 1900 is no where to be found - and Max believes he's hiding somewhere on the ship - and he makes it his goal to find him.
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