"Coat of Many Colors" is based on Dolly Parton's upbringing. The movie takes viewers inside the tight-knit Parton family as they struggle to overcome devastating tragedy and discover the healing power of love, faith and a raggedy patchwork coat that helped make the singer-actress who she is today.

The telepic is not a biopic or musical and isn't about her life and performing career. Instead, it's a family-oriented faith-based story about the incidents in Parton and her family's life around the time she was 9 years old. The movie is set in the Tennessee Great Smokey Mountains in 1955.