As a schoolboy, David ‘Barney’ Miller kept a journal where he wrote down his goals and aspirations for when he grew up. “Get married to a lovely girl,” was one box he hoped to check off.

And so were other things more typical objectives of young boys, and other ambitions regarding sports accolades or achievements like living near the beach. But it was the desire for a wife — a soulmate — that stuck out in Barney’s mind the most. Especially after the accident.

When Barney was 20 years old, he was involved in a car wreck that left him in a wheelchair and with the gloomy diagnosis of never walking again. And a new film from Garage Entertainment shows that accident, along with the rest of Barney’s life — from active, young Aussie to unfortunate quadriplegic, from meeting his dream girl to surfing with Mick Fanning.

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