Synopsis

Everyone knows it for its beauty and its location as the Golden Gate to the Western World. But underneath the hilly streets, the markets and cable cars lies the secret history of the city where millions have left their heart...San Francisco.

Much more than Fisherman's Wharf, The Golden Gate Bridge, Alcatraz and hippies, find out how the city by the bay profited and expanded during the Gold Rush. Cultural and racial diversity typify San Francisco's past, present and future. Whether its alternative lifestyles or a debilitating 8.4 magnitude earthquake, to the Mexican immigrants or the Chinese population that makes up the city's largest ethnicity, overcoming adversity and declaring its uniqueness is the benchmark of this dynamic town. It's a city that symbolizes America's freedoms of speech, expression and experience.

Meet the dreamers and the realists, the schemers, the eccentrics and the beat poets who have made San Francisco more than just a city by the bay, but a Mecca for the bold, the brave and the slightly off-center.