A gambling hall owner relocates from New Orleans to Chicago and entertains his patrons with hot jazz by Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, Woody Herman, and others.

In 1917, Nick Duquesne is the King of Basin Street, owning a casino and night-club. One night, he meets the wealthy Mrs. Rutledge Smith and her daughter Miralee Smith, who is a wannabe opera singer to satisfy her mother but loves the blues and jazz from the black people. She flees from her mother to see Louis Armstrong and his Band playing and her maid and Louis' girlfriend Endie singing in the club with Nick and her music teacher Henry Ferber in Storyville. Soon, Nick and she fall in love with each other. But when sailors hit Nick's former mistress Grace Voiselle on the street, the city government decide to shutdown Storyville and Nick needs to move to Chicago. Worried with Miralee's promising career as opera singer, Nick takes a bracelet from Mrs. Smith as a price to leave Miralee, but he asks Ferber to return to her. Nick moves to Chicago, where he is forced to work with a legitimate business of jazz and blues, since gambling machines are illegal, while Miralee travels to Europe with Professor Ferber to begin her singing career. Years later, they are forced to stumble with each other. What will happen with them?—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil