Every day Zeke's mama ran down the five long flights of stairs to go to work. His daddy went down to work, too, but not to the kind of jobs Zeke's mama liked.
Nine-year-old Zeke, who lives in Harlem, listens to the wonderful music coming from the jazz musician's piano across the court and escapes for a while from the harsh realities that worry him.
A lame, lonely boy living on the top floor of an apartment building in Harlem is deserted by his parents and loses the pleasure of listening to the music from the apartment next door when the jazz pianist moves away.
