Max Tooney, a musician, enters a secondhand music shop just as it's closing, broke and badly in need of money. He has only a trumpet to sell for which he sells lower than he had hoped. Clearly torn at parting from his prized possession, he asks to play it one last time. The shopkeeper agrees, and as he plays he immediately recognises it from a broken record master he found inside a recently-acquired second-hand piano. He asks who the piece is by and Max tells him the story of 1900. 1900 was found abandoned on the four stacker SS Virginian, a mere baby in a hand basket, and likely the son of poor immigrants from steerage. Danny, a coal-man from the boiler room, is determined to raise the boy as his own. He names the boy Danny Boodman T. D. Lemon 1900 (a combination his own name, the year, and an advertisement found in the basket) and hides him from the ship's officers. Sadly, a few years later, Danny the coal-man is killed in a workplace accident, and 1900 is forced to survive aboard the SS Virginian as an orphan. For many years, he travels back and forth across the Atlantic, keeping a low profile and apparently learning the several languages spoken by the immigrants in Third Class. The boy shows a particular gift for music, however, and eventually grows up and joins the ship's orchestra. He befriends Max when he embarks in 1926, but never leaves the vessel, even when presented the opportunity to fashion a new life with a pretty immigrant girl. Apparently, the outside world is too "big" for his imagination at this point. But he stays current with outside musical trends as passengers just explain to him a new music trend or style and he immediately picks it up and starts playing it for them. His reputation as a pianist is so renowned that Jelly Roll Morton, of New Orleans jazz fame, on hearing of his skill comes aboard to challenge 1900 to a piano duel. 1900 merely toys with the hot-tempered Morton, beginning with a tune so simple and well known that its clear he's goading the self proclaimed inventor of jazz. As Morton becomes more determined to display his talent he plays an impressive improvised tune that clearly outmatches 1900's earlier attempt. 1900 calmly sits at the piano and plays the entire tune that Morton had just improvised from memory, note-for-note, demonstrating his superior skill, but again clearly mocking Morton. In the end, the ship-bound 1900 defeats Morton handily. A record producer, having heard of 1900's prowess, brings a primitive recording apparatus aboard and cuts a demo record of a 1900 original composition, but the pianist ends up smashing it. He is offended at the prospect of anyone hearing the music without him performing it. The story flashes back to the mid-1940s periodically, as we see Max (who leaves the ship's orchestra in 1933) trying to lure 1900 out of the now-deserted hulk of the ship. Having served as a hospital ship and transport in World War II, she is scheduled to be scuttled and sunk far offshore. Max manages to get aboard the ship with the recording 1900 made long ago, and attempts to convince him to leave the ship, but he is too daunted by the size of the world. Feeling his fate is tied to the ship, he simply cannot bring himself to leave the only home he has known. In the end, it is assumed he has died with the Virginian as she blows up and sinks.

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