Rubin Kranovich is a bellhop at a fancy New Orleans hotel deep in the French Quarter. He is a Quarter Rat. All of Rubin's friends are Quarter Rats. But Rubin does not plan to make this his whole life. His hopes are big; his ambitions are grand. When not at work and dressed in his red coat and a red cap, looking like an organ-grinder monkey, Rubin can be found with his fellow Quarter Rats in the bars and caf?s - ever developing new ways to make a buck...