This is the story of the friendships that defined one of America's most beloved presidents. Chris Matthews has interviewed President Kennedy's closest confidants - family, friends, and those who served with him - to create a moving portrait of a man many loved but few really understood.

In the summer of 1962, one year after the rise of the Berlin Wall, a group of daring young West Germans risked prison, Stasi torture and even death to liberate friends, lovers, and strangers in East Berlin by digging tunnels under the Wall. Then, as the world's press heard about the secret projects, two television networks raced to be the first to document them from the inside, funding two separate tunnels for exclusive rights to film the escapes....