
On July 22nd, 2017 in San Antonio, Texas, the police found a truck in a Walmart parking lot with 39 illegal immigrants. A tractor had been transporting them undetected from the border town of Laredo to San Antonio. Because the cooling system inside the truck failed, resulting in extreme heat, eight people died during the transport, and two others succumbed to dehydration in the hospital. Those Next to Us traces the journey of one of the survivors from the transport, Germán López Rosales, from Mexico to San Antonio.