Rebirth: I'm Not Taking the Blame

During a Thanksgiving road trip, a woman's new car suffers a sudden brake failure, triggering a pileup that kills two people and injures twenty-four. Every inspection finds nothing wrong with the vehicle, and she is convicted of vehicular manslaughter. Her parents work themselves to death to compensate the victims' families, and she ends her own life in prison.

She wakes back at the start of that same trip, remembering everything. When the brake pedal again refuses to move, she pulls onto the shoulder and calls for help, but a roadside technician finds the brakes working perfectly and, with tow trucks unavailable over the holiday, tells her to drive slowly to the next exit. Testing the pedal herself, she finds it responds normally—until she overtakes a convoy of semis and the brakes fail once more.

As traffic streams past and despair closes in, a new message from her mother appears on the car's screen.