"Dolly Parton's Coat of Many Colors" is based on the inspirational true story of living legend Dolly Parton's remarkable upbringing. This movie special occurs in the Parton family that is tightknit because they struggle to conquer catastrophic tragedy and find the healing force of a patchwork jacket, faith and love which helped create Parton who she has become now. The film is put in 1955 in the Tennessee Great Smoky Mountains. It is a biopic performing and nor a musical about the whole life of Dolly career, but alternatively a narrative about the episodes in her and her family's life over the time that she had been nine years of age.