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Room 20 is the story of a man who lay unconscious in a San Diego nursing home for 15 years, kept alive by tubes and machines. No one knew his name. When investigative reporter Joanne Faryon first saw him, the sign above his bed identified him only as Sixty-Six Garage.

Faryon learned about Garage in 2014, when she was working on a series about life support units pejoratively known as "vent farms." The nursing home believed he was an undocumented migrant involved in a crash while trying to cross the southern border, but knew little else. Faryon was also told that Garage was in a vegetative state.