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Over twenty years ago, something quite extraordinary happened in China—a young man named Rick Hansen in a wheelchair accompanied by a few of his closest friends who, halfway through their around the Man in Motion World Tour, entered Beijing with over 1 million Chinese heralding his arrival as a hero. Why this man and why in China?

Heart of a Dragon, filmed on location in Beijing and on the Great Wall of China is a story of a man, Everyman, and a group of friends who, in a test of their self endurance, discover the true meaning of love, loyalty, friendship and the strength of the human spirit—and the stuff that dreams are made of.