My Father-in-Law’s Trap Destroyed My Marriage

On the eve of the New Year, Laurence Chavez is summoned to a police station to collect his father-in-law, a man in his sixties caught in a vice sweep at a karaoke bar. The old man begs him to pay the fine and swear never to tell his wife or Laurence's wife. Laurence agrees.

A week later, a police citation lands on his manager Maurice Lambert's desk, accusing Laurence of the very solicitation his father-in-law committed. He is fired, his wife and child vanish, and the savings account is emptied. Racing to clear his name, he is struck by a car and killed.

He wakes before the New Year, his father-in-law yet to call. To break the cycle, Laurence deliberately crashes a bike-share into a Maybach and spends seven days in detention. Yet the same citation reaches Maurice, and the same accusations spread through the office. Officer Toby Lawrence confirms the document is real but the incident never happened, and Maurice is led away in handcuffs. Laurence returns home to find it gutted and half a million dollars gone, and his wife's voice on the phone is ice-cold.