From award-winning film-maker David Grubin, this miniseries weaves together the troubled lives of a dirt-farmer"s son and a wealthy Southern slave-owner"s daughter. Together, Abraham and Mary Lincoln ascended to the pinnacle of power at the most difficult time in the nation"s history, the Civil War. Abraham Lincoln"s legacy as the Great Emancipator reshaped the nation while his tragic death left Mary reclusive and forgotten.