Why does everyone - left and right, rich and poor, young and old - love Dolly Parton? During a road trip through the American state of Tennessee, Ilse DeLange and Frank Evenblij go in search of the answer to this question.

America is divided to the core. This is even more true now, in the middle of election time. Remarkably, Americans are unanimous in their opinion about Dolly Parton: everyone loves the immensely popular country singer. How is that possible? How does she connect all these groups of people? In this four-part series, Ilse DeLange and Frank Evenblij travel to the American state of Tennessee, the place where Dolly Parton was born and where she still lives. They follow the singer's life from the town of Sevierville, where Dolly was born into a dirt-poor family, to Nashville, where she celebrated her greatest successes.—NPO