A 10 year old gifted boy (Christopher Marquette) wants to be a jazz pianist much to the chagrin of his more classical oriented piano instructor (Carol Kane). With his mother's (Polly Draper) help, he is an underage regular at a local nightspot, where he is teamed up with a sax superstar (Gregory Hines). Both come to learn that each suffers from Tourette's Syndrome, but have very different ways of dealing with their condition.